Friday Night Quirky Pop Jam: Margaret Glaspy, “Emotions and Math”

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Margaret Glaspy’s debut album, ‘Emotions and Math,’ is out now on ATO Records!
Get the record here:
iTunes: http://smarturl.it/EmotionsAndMath
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Amazon: http://smarturl.it/EAM_Amz

Director: Claire Marie Vogel
Producer: Paulette Agnes Ang
Executive Producer: Paulette Agnes Ang
Director of Photography: Nate Weaver
1st Assistant Camera: Marz Akio Miller
Gaffer: Andrew Joffe
Key Grip: Ryan Oppedisano
Production Designer: Michael David
Hair & Makeup Stylist: Leticia Liesman
Production Assistant: Evan Kyle
Colorist: Nate Weaver
Editor: Claire Marie Vogel
Assistant Editor: Stefano Steno

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1
mmmirele  Dec 28, 2018 • 8:17:20pm

Thread about crickets.

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Jay C  Dec 28, 2018 • 8:21:42pm

Carried over:
re: #268 goddamnedfrank

I can smell the GOP flop sweat from my house.

Though doesn’t whatever funding resolution Speaker Pelosi can introduce/pass in the House have to also get through the Senate?
So Trump can’t “veto” anything until he gets a final approved bill.
And try as they might, blaming Nancy for the “President“‘s making his stupid Wall the sticking point of the entire Federal budget isn’t gonna fly - though the GOP will, I’m sure, do their best to flog that line.

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Dave In Austin  Dec 28, 2018 • 8:42:22pm

Quiet in here tonite…..

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gocart mozart  Dec 28, 2018 • 8:53:04pm
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goddamnedfrank  Dec 28, 2018 • 9:03:53pm

re: #2 Jay C

Carried over:

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Though doesn’t whatever funding resolution Speaker Pelosi can introduce/pass in the House have to also get through the Senate?
So Trump can’t “veto” anything until he gets a final approved bill.

If Mitch McConnell wants to act as Trump’s human shield that’s his choice, but everyone will know that he’d be refusing to allow a vote on something that the Senate passed unanimously three weeks previously out of cowardly subservience to our tantrum throwing teratoma of a President.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Dec 28, 2018 • 9:10:06pm

re: #5 goddamnedfrank

If Mitch McConnell wants to act as Trump’s human shield that’s his choice, but everyone will know that he’d be refusing to allow a vote on something that the Senate passed unanimously three weeks previously out of cowardly subservience to our tantrum throwing teratoma of a President.

He wishes he had as much hair as most teratomas.

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Single-handed sailor  Dec 28, 2018 • 9:21:21pm

Tell me the truth, does my motherboard make my heat-sink look big?

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Belafon  Dec 28, 2018 • 9:25:38pm

re: #7 Single-handed sailor

Tell me the truth, does my motherboard make my heat-sink look big?

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You would probably use less room if you just stuck it in a deep freeze.

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam  Dec 28, 2018 • 9:27:04pm

re: #7 Single-handed sailor

Does that monster have a fan?

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Single-handed sailor  Dec 28, 2018 • 9:30:46pm

re: #9 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam

Does that monster have a fan?

Yes but the fans come off to mount the HSF. The first memory slot and the first M.2 SSD slot are under the heatsink. There is a fan in the middle, and I had to rotate the HSF so the outside fan is to the back of the motherboard because it covered 3 of the 4 memory slots.

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Single-handed sailor  Dec 28, 2018 • 9:35:39pm

It has to dissipate 250 watts. While the CPU is rated at 94 watts the i7 9700 under full load generates 230 watts of heat.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 28, 2018 • 9:36:21pm

Nancy Pelosi is one of Trump and the GOPs favorite punching bags. They are going to go after her with everything they’ve got to rally their base.

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freetoken  Dec 28, 2018 • 9:40:08pm

Eileen Farrell was a staple of the opera lover - she must have been recorded very many times, including cross-over songs.

A bit before my time, but I remember seeing her on TV decades ago.

We’re at least 120 years into recorded music by now, and I wonder what the long term effects have been to humanity, that we now rely on recorded music.

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Belafon  Dec 28, 2018 • 9:40:59pm

re: #13 Eclectic Cyborg

Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Beto O’Rourke, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Nancy Pelosi is one of Trump and the GOPs favorite punching bags. They are going to go after her with everything they’ve got to rally their base.

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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 28, 2018 • 9:48:12pm

re: #13 Eclectic Cyborg

Nancy Pelosi is one of Trump and the GOPs favorite punching bags. They are going to go after her with everything they’ve got to rally their base.

Any Democrat who became Speaker would be such a target. Remember: Obama mistakenly thought he would have more success working with Republicans because he wasn’t a hated Clinton. The RW conspiracy machine targets any Democrat who seems to be acquiring broad support or fame or power. Of course, the party of white males does take particular pleasure in insulting women and minorities — but any Democrat will do.

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam  Dec 28, 2018 • 9:57:52pm

re: #12 Single-handed sailor

It has to dissipate 250 watts. While the CPU is rated at 94 watts the i7 9700 under full load generates 230 watts of heat.

What you using that mobo for?

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Single-handed sailor  Dec 28, 2018 • 10:22:44pm

re: #17 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam

What you using that mobo for?

Gaming in 4k. My last MB had some screwed up CPU socket that would not mate with any HSF and would overheat at 40% CPU load so I have 10 years of gaming urge built up.

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austin_blue  Dec 28, 2018 • 10:26:49pm

re: #6 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

He wishes he had as much hair as most teratomas.

Harsh, dude. Excellent!

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam  Dec 28, 2018 • 10:29:17pm

re: #18 Single-handed sailor

Gaming in 4k. My last MB had some screwed up CPU socket that would not mate with any HSF and would overheat at 40% CPU load so I have 10 years of gaming urge built up.

Gotcha. I sometimes check out tech channels on YouTube when I’m bored, and am amazed at the water-cooling options now. I have no need for extravagant cooling mechanisms, but they sure look cool. (So to speak)

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John Vreeland  Dec 28, 2018 • 10:30:58pm

Is Glaspy playing a baritone guitar? Sounds like it but doesn’t look like it.

I play mandolin, so everything looks sounds baritone to me.

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austin_blue  Dec 28, 2018 • 10:31:24pm

re: #13 Eclectic Cyborg

Nancy Pelosi is one of Trump and the GOPs favorite punching bags. They are going to go after her with everything they’ve got to rally their base.

Yeah, but she has the video of Trump owning the shutdown, which will be posted again and again and again and again and again on the net.

He owned it, and he can’t deny it. It’s the Trump shutdown, full stop.

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam  Dec 28, 2018 • 10:32:34pm

re: #22 austin_blue

Yeah, but she has the video of Trump owning the shutdown, which will be posted again and again and again and again and again on the net.

He owned it, and he can’t deny it. It’s the Trump shutdown, full stop.

I love watching it just to see Schumer’s grin as Trump takes ownership.

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John Vreeland  Dec 28, 2018 • 10:39:21pm

WaPo headline: “Trump retreats from public view…”

What does this mean? That he’s not longer twittering? Twitting? Honestly, I think he’s a perfect twitter. Twit. Whatever.

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austin_blue  Dec 28, 2018 • 10:40:04pm

re: #21 John Vreeland

Is Glaspy playing a baritone guitar? Sounds like it but doesn’t look like it.

I play mandolin, so everything looks baritone to me.

Dude, you spend half of your musical life tuning, and the rest playing out of tune. Playing on the tenor clef is the least of your problems.

;-)

It’s an old joke, but still funny. Good for Lute, and Chirango players, too.

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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 28, 2018 • 10:41:55pm

re: #22 austin_blue

Yeah, but she has the video of Trump owning the shutdown, which will be posted again and again and again and again and again on the net.

He owned it, and he can’t deny it. It’s the Trump shutdown, full stop.

It’s Trump. Of course he denies it and his minions in Congress and throughout the country regurgitate this denial. There’s a reason the WP invented a new category of Pinocchios just for Trump.

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austin_blue  Dec 28, 2018 • 10:49:04pm

re: #26 Hecuba’s daughter

It’s Trump. Of course he denies it and his minions in Congress and throughout the country regurgitate this denial. There’s a reason the WP invented a new category of Pinocchios just for Trump.

The rest of the world should adopt it and send that puppet’s nose right up his ass and call him the abject liar that he is, a con man and a fraud.

Way past time for the press to point and shoot. He’s an easy target.

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makeitstop  Dec 28, 2018 • 10:50:59pm

re: #21 John Vreeland

Is Glaspy playing a baritone guitar? Sounds like it but doesn’t look like it.

I play mandolin, so everything looks sounds baritone to me.

Looks like a regular scale Telecaster to me.

I’d love to know what she recorded that track through, though. Her tone is excellent.

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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 28, 2018 • 10:55:54pm

re: #27 austin_blue

The rest of the world should adopt it and send that puppet’s nose right up his ass and call him the abject liar that he is, a con man and a fraud.

Way past time for the press to point and shoot. He’s an easy target.

Of course, his team is also going with the other tactic of saying the wall is essential to protect this country and the Democrats are for open borders and against security.

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John Vreeland  Dec 28, 2018 • 11:02:25pm

re: #28 makeitstop

Looks like a regular scale Telecaster to me.

I’d love to know what she recorded that track through, though. Her tone is excellent.

That’s what I’m saying. It sounds like she is playing longer strings with that tone.
Then again, you only need to add 4cm to a Telecaster to enter baritone range. However, at the short range you get muddy overtones, like on a shorter Gibson guitar. I’m stumped.

Edit: not enough frets on that guitar to be anything but standard.

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Ferdinand  Dec 28, 2018 • 11:03:28pm

re: #3 Dave In Austin

Quiet in here tonite…..

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I’m resting my online voice until Nancy takes up her gavel. 🦹🏻‍♀️

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I Would Prefer Not To  Dec 28, 2018 • 11:15:41pm

re: #4 gocart mozart

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Gocart Mozart was checking out the weather chart….

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gwangung  Dec 28, 2018 • 11:20:53pm

re: #29 Hecuba’s daughter

Of course, his team is also going with the other tactic of saying the wall is essential to protect this country and the Democrats are for open borders and against security.

ANd we should say the absolute worst way to do border security is a physical wall. It’s a defense where the terrorists ARENT’. It does nothing for cyber attacks. It does nothing for over-extended visas. It does nothing for American enemies coming from the north.

The wall focuses on people who are weaker, poorer, less knowledgeable and less endowed than any of our real enemies.

A wall diverts resources from defending from the enemies who are attacking us. It PREVENTS real border security.

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam  Dec 28, 2018 • 11:30:53pm

re: #33 gwangung

ANd we should say the absolute worst way to do border security is a physical wall. It’s a defense where the terrorists ARENT’. It does nothing for cyber attacks. It does nothing for over-extended visas. It does nothing for American enemies coming from the north.

The wall focuses on people who are weaker, poorer, less knowledgeable and less endowed than any of our real enemies.

A wall diverts resources from defending from the enemies who are attacking us. It PREVENTS real border security.

Trump and his dumber supporters never advanced to abstract thought as youngsters. They’re still stuck in concrete thought, which requires solid objects they can see and touch. A wall is the only thing they can really understand.

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austin_blue  Dec 28, 2018 • 11:34:59pm

re: #29 Hecuba’s daughter

Of course, his team is also going with the other tactic of saying the wall is essential to protect this country and the Democrats are for open borders and against security.

A thirty foot wall will result in the construction of thirty-two foot ladders. The wall will require a huge number of personnel to keep those ladders from being used to scale the wall. The wall itself will require upwards of $20 to $30 billion to build, not counting the property the will have to be purchased under imminent domain. Protecting the wall against thirty-two foot ladders will be hugely more costly on an annual basis because of the people needed to protect it.

In addition, history has shown that fixed walls simply do not work. Every single one has failed, from the times of the Romans, to the Han Chinese, to the French Maginot line, to Berlin. They all failed. Walls are fixed structures. Every time, people have found a work-around, which has made the walls redundant and useless.

They don’t work. They’re a waste of money, time, and are s stupid reaction to not pursue political solutions. The Israelis are starting to come to grips with this right now. The wall along the West Bank has not brought peace.

Pelosi has got fact-based logic and history on her side. It’s a winning argument.

Good night, all. Talk with you tomorrow. Sweet dreams.

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 28, 2018 • 11:48:46pm

re: #5 goddamnedfrank

If Mitch McConnell wants to act as Trump’s human shield that’s his choice, but everyone will know that he’d be refusing to allow a vote on something that the Senate passed unanimously three weeks previously out of cowardly subservience to our tantrum throwing teratoma of a President.

The alternative would require McConnell telling Trump to STFU and sign the clean CR and that’s that. Whether McConnell has the fortitude to do that is highly questionable.

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Sionainn, Fierce Mother  Dec 28, 2018 • 11:51:10pm

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I Would Prefer Not To  Dec 28, 2018 • 11:55:29pm

re: #37 Sionainn, Fierce Mother

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 28, 2018 • 11:56:26pm

re: #35 austin_blue

The wall itself will require upwards of $20 to $30 billion to build, not counting the property the will have to be purchased under imminent domain.

The eminent domain lawsuits filed by pissed-off property owners will likely tie up construction for a decade and by the time that’s all settled, Trump won’t be POTUS anymore and the whole fatuous project will have been cancelled.

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Sionainn, Fierce Mother  Dec 29, 2018 • 12:10:59am

re: #38 I Would Prefer Not To

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Sionainn, Fierce Mother  Dec 29, 2018 • 12:11:50am

re: #39 Dr Lizardo

The eminent domain lawsuits filed by pissed-off property owners will likely tie up construction for a decade and by the time that’s all settled, Trump won’t be POTUS anymore and the whole fatuous project will have been cancelled.

And how much money will be wasted and never recovered by those property owners?!

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 29, 2018 • 12:16:27am

re: #41 Sionainn, Fierce Mother

And how much money will be wasted and never recovered by those property owners?!

More victims of Trump’s scams.

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Sionainn, Fierce Mother  Dec 29, 2018 • 12:21:12am

re: #42 Dr Lizardo

More victims of Trump’s scams.

And I wonder how many of them were originally Trump supporters (and assuming that now that is affects them personally, they are no longer supporters).

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Sionainn, Fierce Mother  Dec 29, 2018 • 12:59:48am

Where are all the goddamn lizards? I stayed up late and the thread has died?!?

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Sionainn, Fierce Mother  Dec 29, 2018 • 1:07:43am

What happened? All wussed out?!?

/I’ll take whatever down dings I deserve. I’m still sticking to the OP.

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MsJ  Dec 29, 2018 • 1:33:40am

re: #24 John Vreeland

WaPo headline: “Trump retreats from public view…”

What does this mean? That he’s not longer twittering? Twitting? Honestly, I think he’s a perfect twitter. Twit. Whatever.

It means he’s hiding at mar-a-lago.

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goddamnedfrank  Dec 29, 2018 • 1:37:21am

This thread renewed my faith in the basic goodness of the people who work at Trader Joes.

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Ming5000  Dec 29, 2018 • 1:53:43am

re: #47 goddamnedfrank

HA! That thread is well worth a read. :-)

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MsJ  Dec 29, 2018 • 2:06:41am

re: #44 Sionainn, Fierce Mother

Where are all the goddamn lizards? I stayed up late and the thread has died?!?

Normal people are sleeping at 5 am on a Saturday morning. Alas, I’m not one of them.

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Sionainn, Fierce Mother  Dec 29, 2018 • 2:28:39am

re: #49 MsJ

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 29, 2018 • 2:28:57am

Oh my goodness, I can here the whinge half way across the country, and Wonkette puts it into perspective.

For our poor little “discriminated against” FOX model, Ezra Levant set up a GoFundMe account to help her get an apartment (because apparently FOX News Host doesn’t pay enough). Perhaps she should take the Office of Personnel Management’s advice and work out a barter arrangement with a prospective landlord.

(Note Ezra Levant isn’t going to dip into his considerable wealth to help her out. That’s your job, conservatives. In the meantime, you’ll have to choose between that and Trump’s wall fund, which now has $18,000,000.)

HOLY GRIFT! Send This Fox Creep Money For … Literally No Reason At All (hilarity of victimhood at the link)

Don’t let it be said that conservatives are unfeeling and incapable of compassion. They might collectively shrug when an immigrant child dies but their tear ducts activate at full blast whenever someone like them is mildly inconvenienced. Pardes Seleh, described as a “prominent conservative commentator” by very kind people, has become the poster girl for liberal cruelty in a time when decent people just want to kick back and relax while Donald Trump makes America great again.

Seleh tweeted Thursday morning that for the “second time” this week, she’d been “rejected from an apartment/house in DC” because she worked at Fox. She’s also written for RedAlert Politics and The Daily Wire. We should clarify that Seleh wasn’t turned down by a landlord but by individuals looking for a roommate. She attached to the tweet the very polite email rejection she’d received.

“Thank you for your interest Pardes. After perusing your various journalistic and social media posts, it’s pretty clear your politics views are diametrically opposed to ours (and we hate Fox). Hopefully you will find a place where that will be a good fit.”

(more)

In particular, she responded to a gay couple looking for a roommate. I can’t imagine why they wouldn’t want someone who works for a network which objectively hates them and posts tweets with an alleged study saying if you are unruly at two years old you will grow up to be a thief and a liberal.

She complains that liberal gays who won’t accept her as a roommate leaves her feeling as if she’s being treated like the Nazis. (You lose, Ms. Seleh, thanks for playing.)

The American Conservative’s Rod Dreher says it’s time for the “bake the cake bigots” to stand up for Ms. Saleh.

You’d think if FOX was paying so poorly, that she’d be all on board for Democratic proposals for a living wage.

Or, she’s lying and trying to be yet another conservative victim for attention (and grifting).

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 29, 2018 • 2:46:33am

re: #37 Sionainn, Fierce Mother

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MsJ  Dec 29, 2018 • 2:48:04am

re: #51 Anymouse 🌹

What infuriates me is the conservative grifts and whining always gives them money, and for this one, for absolutely no purpose, when people who actually need help, real help for real reasons, don’t get shit.

What makes it that much worse is when people donate like $5 just to write a comment about how fucked up the person is. Take that!!11!!! (and my money! Just who’s the sucker?)

Gah!

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 29, 2018 • 2:54:02am

re: #53 MsJ

What infuriates me is the conservative grifts and whining always gives them money, and for this one, for absolutely no purpose, when people who actually need help, real help for real reasons, don’t get shit.

What makes it that much worse is when people donate like $5 just to write a comment about how fucked up the person is. Take that!!11!!! (and my money! Just who’s the sucker?)

Gah!

I agree. When my sister’s wife was dying from cancer and my sister was overwhelmed with medical bills, the reverse happened. A whole bunch of people signed in to give the absolute minimum to leave comments about how they are both going to hell, because lesbians.

She wound up pulling the account down because of all the Christian love from her fellow Christians across the country.

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 29, 2018 • 2:55:51am

Laura Ingraham drops her three-hour radio show and will start a podcast. (Since podcasting makes considerably less money than radio host, I guess either her ratings are down or she’s being fired over her controversial statements.)

hollywoodreporter.com

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 29, 2018 • 3:03:12am

re: #25 austin_blue

Dude, you spend half of your musical life tuning, and the rest playing out of tune. Playing on the tenor clef is the least of your problems.

;-)

It’s an old joke, but still funny. Good for Lute, and Chirango players, too.

Try playing the hammered dulcimer. It’s nearly all tuning.

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MsJ  Dec 29, 2018 • 3:08:58am
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MsJ  Dec 29, 2018 • 3:16:45am

😁😂🤣😭

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Dave In Austin  Dec 29, 2018 • 3:26:54am

Dr. Jesus… Oh Lord this thread.

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 29, 2018 • 3:30:25am

I keep seeing the whataboutism derp from conservatives over Trump’s hat-sigining with troops versus Michelle Obama signing a copy of

Esquire magazine with her picture on the cover.

Those are not the same (aside from what was apparently screening since the Trump visit was blazingly white). Mrs. Obama was not signing campaign paraphernalia.

Trump’s stunt put enlisted personnel in a position of being prosecuted under the UCMJ (Article 92, Disobeying a Lawful Order—specifically, no politicking in uniform). The officers who allowed this travesty should be charged for conduct unbecoming an officer and if they ordered them to be there giving illegal orders.

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 29, 2018 • 3:34:19am

re: #59 Dave In Austin

Dr. Jesus… Oh Lord this thread.

If Jesus is involved in everything (or controls everything, or God does), such as ensuring you survive a medical condition, then he also causes the bad things (stillbirths, childhood cancer, birth defects, mass murder by gun, &c).

The people who post those sorts of graven images (prohibited by the X Commandments Suggestions) never want their deity to be responsible for the bad stuff even though they claim he is responsible for everything (such as a doctor spending years in school learning his or her skills).

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Dec 29, 2018 • 3:35:45am

Apostrolypse!

Facebook Post

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 29, 2018 • 3:41:27am

re: #62 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

Apostrolypse!

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Over-abuse of the grocer’s apostrophe should be punished by whipping with a wet noodle.

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MsJ  Dec 29, 2018 • 3:43:46am
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A Mom Anon  Dec 29, 2018 • 3:53:22am

re: #37 Sionainn, Fierce Mother

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sagehen  Dec 29, 2018 • 3:53:23am

re: #51 Anymouse 🌹

The American Conservative’s Rod Dreher says it’s time for the “bake the cake bigots” to stand up for Ms. Saleh.

Right. Because 20 minutes interaction to sell somebody something you routinely sell to lots of other people… is just like sharing a living space all day every day for years on end.

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 29, 2018 • 3:54:38am

+6F outside. My cold water just froze again (grr, grumble, getting a parka and going down in the cellar).

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Dec 29, 2018 • 3:56:46am

re: #67 Anymouse 🌹

+6F outside. My cold water just froze again (grr, grumble, getting a parka and going down in the cellar).

Are you leaving a faucet dripping? Because that’s what we always do to keep the water moving so it won’t freeze.

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sagehen  Dec 29, 2018 • 3:59:08am

re: #64 MsJ

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Car with no tires, up on blocks in the front yard.

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 29, 2018 • 4:01:40am

re: #68 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Are you leaving a faucet dripping? Because that’s what we always do to keep the water moving so it won’t freeze.

I’m going to now. It was just running over an hour ago. I found the milkhouse heater was actually turned to 1/3, so I turned it to full. Hopefully it won’t be frozen long.

Topside, my wife is running the oven at 400 degrees. (Our kitchen is not heated, only the front room with a floor heater from the Fifties.) Hopefully that will help (if nothing else, it will warm the kitchen.)

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MsJ  Dec 29, 2018 • 4:01:55am

re: #69 sagehen

Car with no tires, up on blocks in the front yard.

And an old couch on the front porch. The epitome of outdoor living.

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam  Dec 29, 2018 • 4:02:05am

re: #69 sagehen

Car with no tires, up on blocks in the front yard.

Lawn ornament

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MsJ  Dec 29, 2018 • 4:02:25am
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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 29, 2018 • 4:05:22am

Responding to a racist and unhinged Q post:

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 29, 2018 • 4:06:24am

Yay, the water started again.

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sagehen  Dec 29, 2018 • 4:06:57am

re: #72 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam

Lawn ornament

Very specific lawn ornament…

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MsJ  Dec 29, 2018 • 4:18:27am

Love this article.

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MsJ  Dec 29, 2018 • 4:19:40am

re: #75 Anymouse 🌹

Yay, the water started again.

Now leave a faucet dripping. Until spring.

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MsJ  Dec 29, 2018 • 4:25:17am

Another good article. Hubby swears that Raw Story does this.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Dec 29, 2018 • 4:27:45am

re: #78 MsJ

Now leave a faucet dripping. Until spring.

The one farthest from the inlet pipe—which isn’t always obvious. In our old house, the water entered under the kitchen, went to the upstairs bathroom, doubled back to the kitchen, then went to the (later added) fixtures in the basement.

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 29, 2018 • 4:32:38am

re: #78 MsJ

Now leave a faucet dripping. Until spring.

In a couple days the temperatures will be above freezing, but yeah.

I need to look into insulating the pipes better. Lagging/heat tape.

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MsJ  Dec 29, 2018 • 4:34:13am

re: #80 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

The one farthest from the inlet pipe—which isn’t always obvious. In our old house, the water entered under the kitchen, went to the upstairs bathroom, doubled back to the kitchen, then went to the (later added) fixtures in the basement.

I didn’t know that. I always just left some faucet dripping.

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 29, 2018 • 4:36:06am

re: #80 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

The one farthest from the inlet pipe—which isn’t always obvious. In our old house, the water entered under the kitchen, went to the upstairs bathroom, doubled back to the kitchen, then went to the (later added) fixtures in the basement.

Our plumbing is weird.

When the village replaced every home’s lead pipe inlets from the city pipes, the way the inlet got hooked up was more like a computer star network.

The inlet comes from the street to the back of the cellar, then everything splits off from that (outdoor hose, kitchen, bathtub, bathroom sink, r/o unit). Each is separately fed from the inlet pipe pretty much all from the same point.

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BigBadDemocrat  Dec 29, 2018 • 4:40:34am

To much rain
Two jobs still
Both companies covered up with work

Making so much money on over timebI closing in on George Soros

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 29, 2018 • 4:41:35am

re: #83 Anymouse 🌹

The hot water feed also comes out from that star network point. The outlet of the hot water heater is connected normally (in series), with the kitchen being the last on the line (that’s the pipe that usually freezes, the kitchen cold water doing it was the first time since we’ve lived here).

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MsJ  Dec 29, 2018 • 4:43:08am

re: #81 Anymouse 🌹

In a couple days the temperatures will be above freezing, but yeah.

I need to look into insulating the pipes better. Lagging/heat tape.

Yes you do.

I’m assuming you’re on well/septic and if so letting a faucet drip is expensive. Hubby (the engineer) said get an “electrical heat trace” on the pipes that get cold and insulate them. The trace provides very low electrical resistance, which warms the pipes, and insulate over that trace (you must insulate the trace!) You’re pipes will never freeze up.

Hubs says the trace isn’t expensive and the insulation is even less expensive BUT insulation alone will likely not stop the freezing as you have areas in your house that are not heated and NE gets really cold.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Dec 29, 2018 • 4:45:02am

re: #85 Anymouse 🌹

The hot water feed also comes out from that star network point. The outlet of the hot water heater is connected normally (in series), with the kitchen being the last on the line (that’s the pipe that usually freezes, the kitchen cold water doing it was the first time since we’ve lived here).

In a modern house the pipes are probably all in nice safe warm spaces after they enter the house—it’s the pipe under the front lawn you have to worry about. In old houses that have been worked on at different times, like yours and ours, anything can happen.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 29, 2018 • 4:52:20am

re: #62 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

Apostrolypse!

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“SCURVE’S”?

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 29, 2018 • 4:53:25am

re: #86 MsJ

Yes you do.

I’m assuming you’re on well/septic and if so letting a faucet drip is expensive. Hubby (the engineer) said get an “electrical heat trace” on the pipes that get cold and insulate them. The trace provides very low electrical resistance, which warms the pipes, and insulate over that trace (you must insulate the trace!) You’re pipes will never freeze up.

Hubs says the trace isn’t expensive and the insulation is even less expensive BUT insulation alone will likely not stop the freezing as you have areas in your house that are not heated and NE gets really cold.

No, I am on city water/sewer. Letting the faucet drip is not expensive (the village water rate is really low, though you wouldn’t have guessed it when we raised the sewage connexion fee by $0.50 a month last year on the village board to cover increases in postage mailing out bills and a rate rise from the trash company).

I will get with the plumber and look into electrical heat trace.

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MsJ  Dec 29, 2018 • 5:02:36am

re: #89 Anymouse 🌹

No, I am on city water/sewer. Letting the faucet drip is not expensive (the village water rate is really low, though you wouldn’t have guessed it when we raised the sewage connexion fee by $0.50 a month last year on the village board to cover increases in postage mailing out bills and a rate rise from the trash company).

I will get with the plumber and look into electrical heat trace.

Funny what assumptions give you. I thought with you being in a small village you’d all be on well and septic.

The trace is apparently a tiny filament that you put on the pipes before putting on the insulation. It sounded like something ** I ** could do so I’m not sure if you need a plumber. But I can’t say for sure.

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 29, 2018 • 5:02:41am
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MsJ  Dec 29, 2018 • 5:03:43am

Ok. I’ve now seen this referred to over and over and I’m like HUH? What is BirdBox? Is that like BarkBox for birds or…?

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 29, 2018 • 5:05:48am

re: #90 MsJ

Funny what assumptions give you. I thought with you being in a small village you’d all be on well and septic.

The trace is apparently a tiny filament that you put on the pipes before putting on the insulation. It sounded like something ** I ** could do so I’m not sure if you need a plumber. But I can’t say for sure.

I’m the town water system operator. I have a license and everything! Take water test samples for bacteria and chemicals, operate the wellhouses and pumps, inspect the water tower to make sure it doesn’t fall over on the village board chairwoman’s house, that sort of thing.

The water tower called me up tonight - last year it was calling when it was cold and lonely about every four hours until we got that fixed. This time it seems the maintenance mechanic was working on something and turned off the water pumps. When the water tower got too low, it called.

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MsJ  Dec 29, 2018 • 5:07:38am

re: #93 Anymouse 🌹

I’m the town water system operator. I have a license and everything! Take water test samples for bacteria and chemicals, operate the wellhouses and pumps, inspect the water tower to make sure it doesn’t fall over on the village board chairwoman’s house, that sort of thing.

The water tower called me up tonight - last year it was calling when it was cold and lonely about every four hours until we got that fixed. This time it seems the maintenance mechanic was working on something and turned off the water pumps. When the water tower got too low, it called.

Of course! Why did I not associate that with your water system? I for some reason thought you were doing that for like an aquifer.

So your still doing that? Are they paying you now?

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 29, 2018 • 5:11:02am

re: #92 MsJ

Ok. I’ve now seen this referred to over and over and I’m like HUH? What is BirdBox? Is that like BarkBox for birds or…?

It’s a sci-fi/horror film starring Sandra Bullock and John Malkovich.

imdb.com

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jeffreyw  Dec 29, 2018 • 5:16:33am

Imgur


Good morning!

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MsJ  Dec 29, 2018 • 5:18:34am
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Dr Lizardo  Dec 29, 2018 • 5:24:10am

This is…….gonna make for an interesting year ahead, that’s for damned sure:

Anibal Romero, a Newark attorney who represents several undocumented immigrants who used to work at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, said Friday he recently met with investigators from the state attorney general’s office and handed over fraudulent green cards and Social Security numbers that management at the club allegedly procured and gave his clients, Victorina Morales and Sandra Diaz.

…

Both women allege management at the Trump club knew they were undocumented and set them up with fake work documents.

In Morales’ case, Romero said a supervisor compiled all of her information and then took her photo in the laundry room of the club.

A few days later, the boss — who’s not being named by The News — told Morales he had received her fake documents and said he would hold on to them.

“This was a practice and pattern,” Romero said. “My clients felt like they were trapped and they felt like the fake documents could be used against them.”

nydailynews.com

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MsJ  Dec 29, 2018 • 5:25:09am

Fascinating supposition. Please let it be true.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 29, 2018 • 5:29:04am

re: #97 MsJ

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Wall Street Dem is the new Neo Lib.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 29, 2018 • 5:30:02am

re: #98 Dr Lizardo

This is…….gonna make for an interesting year ahead, that’s for damned sure:

…

nydailynews.com

Do as I say not as I actually do. A typical Trump hypocrisy.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 29, 2018 • 5:36:36am

Anyhow regarding Wall Street, Wall Street is definitely flawed and needs regulations for sure but the Sirota-Sanders way of attacking everyone who works there as a greedy capitalist is sleazy shit. Just as their especially Sanders tendency to ignore bigotry in the working class. And you’re getting this from someone whose family background is much more working class than corporate banking.

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 29, 2018 • 5:37:11am

re: #101 HappyWarrior

Do as I say not as I actually do. A typical Trump hypocrisy.

The Trump Organization is nothing more than a criminal enterprise. Faking green cards and Social Security numbers, and then giving these fake green cards and Social Security numbers to its undocumented employees? And then turning around and blackmailing the undocumented employees with these fake documents? How much did Trump know and did Trump, in fact, sanction this practice?

Remember that Trump golf clubs are directly run by Donald Trump; these aren’t licensing deals, at least not in the United States. The President is not only visiting a property he owns that violates Federal law, there’s a possibility that he’s also likely responsible for the violations.

This makes House of Cards look like Sesame Street.

This isn’t merely an impeachable offense - this is outright organized criminal activity…..it’s human trafficking.

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam  Dec 29, 2018 • 5:40:08am

Got a couple of in-laws affected by this shutdown.

newsandtribune.com

Jeffersonville is right across the river from Louisville.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 29, 2018 • 5:40:51am

re: #103 Dr Lizardo

The Trump Organization is nothing more than a criminal enterprise. Faking green cards and Social Security numbers, and then giving these fake green cards and Social Security numbers to its undocumented employees? And then turning around and blackmailing the undocumented employees with these fake documents? How much did Trump know and did Trump, in fact, sanction this practice?

Remember that Trump golf clubs are directly run by Donald Trump; these aren’t licensing deals, at least not in the United States. The President is not only visiting a property he owns that violates Federal law, there’s a possibility that he’s also likely responsible for the violations.

This makes House of Cards look like Sesame Street.

This isn’t merely an impeachable offense - this is outright organized criminal activity…..it’s human trafficking.

He’s a gangster. No different from the Gambinos or Luchesse.

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam  Dec 29, 2018 • 5:43:25am

re: #101 HappyWarrior

Do as I say not as I actually do. A typical Trump hypocrisy.

He’s not the only one. There are plenty of xenophobes in the GOP who regularly employ undocumented workers in their homes and businesses.

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 29, 2018 • 5:43:38am

re: #105 HappyWarrior

He’s a gangster. No different from the Gambinos or Luchesse.

Just imagine the AG of New Jersey or New York bringing up the POTUS on RICO charges.

Holy shit; scandal of the century, right there.

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 29, 2018 • 5:49:53am

re: #94 MsJ

Of course! Why did I not associate that with your water system? I for some reason thought you were doing that for like an aquifer.

So your still doing that? Are they paying you now?

They’re not paying me.

As for the aquifer, before we moved here the village only charged for having a water hookup (no charge for water). When the water project was done in 2011 to replace all the village’s water pipes (and pipes going into homes), the state mandated the village had to meter water and charge (something) for it, so they could measure extraction from the Ogallala Aquifer versus recharge by rain and runoff from the mountains.

That water project (thank goodness I wasn’t here for that) had people coming to village board meetings armed, breaking out in fistfights, &c. Folks were really upset about paying for water.

Our rate is $3.75 for 1,000 gallons.

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bd(Redacted)  Dec 29, 2018 • 5:51:22am

Good morning Lizards:

LOL, I felt a great disturbance in the force……

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HappyWarrior  Dec 29, 2018 • 5:52:25am

re: #109 bd(Redacted)

Good morning Lizards:

LOL, I felt a great disturbance in the force……

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Haha. Poor Bill.

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam  Dec 29, 2018 • 5:53:15am

re: #110 HappyWarrior

Haha. Poor Bill.

Buyer’s remorse

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bd(Redacted)  Dec 29, 2018 • 5:54:13am

re: #110 HappyWarrior

Haha. Poor Bill.

Of course he is leaving the Republican Party but there is no way in hell he will not vote for a Republican, so I guess this means something….somehow…..

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 29, 2018 • 5:54:36am

re: #111 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam

Buyer’s remorse

Wingnut gravy train coming to an end?

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HappyWarrior  Dec 29, 2018 • 5:56:29am

re: #112 bd(Redacted)

Of course he is leaving the Republican Party but there is no way in hell he will not vote for a Republican, so I guess this means something….somehow…..

Yeah he’ll be another wingnut who insists he’s a conservative not a Republican who always votes for the GOP and defends the party line.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 29, 2018 • 5:56:48am

re: #111 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam

Buyer’s remorse

Yeah. I’d say so.

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bd(Redacted)  Dec 29, 2018 • 5:57:36am

re: #110 HappyWarrior

Haha. Poor Bill.

Washington Free Beacon’s 2016 Man of the Year quits the Republican Party.

freebeacon.com

I like that headline.

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bd(Redacted)  Dec 29, 2018 • 5:58:28am

re: #114 HappyWarrior

Yeah he’ll be another wingnut who insists he’s a conservative not a Republican who always votes for the GOP and defends the party line.

I guess that just means that he is stopping sending checks that he never sent anyway.

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 29, 2018 • 6:01:45am

re: #116 bd(Redacted)

Washington Free Beacon’s 2016 Man of the Year quits the Republican Party.

freebeacon.com

I like that headline.

“The new Nate Silver.” The delusion is strong.

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 29, 2018 • 6:02:39am
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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam  Dec 29, 2018 • 6:03:37am

It took Mitchell a long while to catch on to the secret of the Republican Party. It cannot govern. It can only react. Its only plan is to dismantle everything the Democrats have created. After that, who knows? The GOP sure don’t. They can’t think that far ahead. I’m sure that’s why Ryan is leaving the House. Now that he’s fucked up the tax system, he’s leaving, because fixing it now is too hard. Same thing Cameron did in the UK.

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bd(Redacted)  Dec 29, 2018 • 6:04:56am

re: #118 Anymouse 🌹

“The new Nate Silver.” The delusion is strong.

Bill is closer to being the anti-Nate Silver than he is the new Nate Silver.

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MsJ  Dec 29, 2018 • 6:07:13am

re: #105 HappyWarrior

He’s a gangster. No different from the Gambinos or Luchesse.

And Cohen’s middle name is The. Let’s hope trump et al wind up like the other criminals, dying in prison.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 29, 2018 • 6:07:24am

Nate actually analyzed polls. Bill got lucky by being a Trump true believer.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 29, 2018 • 6:07:45am

re: #122 MsJ

And Cohen’s middle name is The. Let’s hope trump et al wind up like the other criminals, dying in prison.

I’d love that so much.

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Targetpractice  Dec 29, 2018 • 6:12:34am

re: #123 HappyWarrior

Nate actually analyzed polls. Bill got lucky by being a Trump true believer.

He was one of the handful of broken clocks who “predicted” Trump would win, only to spend the year up to the midterms screaming “RED TSUNAMI!” and now trying to make excuses about “stolen elections” and “criminal conspiracies.”

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 29, 2018 • 6:13:16am
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Targetpractice  Dec 29, 2018 • 6:18:43am

Speaking of election fraud, I’m curious how the whole matter with NC-09 is gonna play out next week. The board broke up without certifying the election, which the NC GOP continues to insist they “won” because despite all the evidence to the contrary they insist it was perfectly legit and nobody proved otherwise, so I don’t know if they’ve any legal standing to challenge the House Dems refusing to seat Harris.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 29, 2018 • 6:22:29am

re: #125 Targetpractice

He was one of the handful of broken clocks who “predicted” Trump would win, only to spend the year up to the midterms screaming “RED TSUNAMI!” and now trying to make excuses about “stolen elections” and “criminal conspiracies.”

Exactly and Nate was still right about 2016. The odds did favor Clinton despite Trump winning.

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ObserverArt  Dec 29, 2018 • 6:25:55am

re: #79 MsJ

Another good article. Hubby swears that Raw Story does this.

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Morning!

I was checking out a British Formula One racing news site Thursday and my TrendMicro protection threw up a big old warning that one of the other sites linked to some of their content was blocked for cryptocurrency mining. Yikes! Backed the hell out of there fast.

I think I won’t be suing that site anymore. It has turned into a complete mess with all the ad links and some of their ads have the close button and it doesn’t close. Also the last few months of the year it has thrown up warnings about viruses in some of the links.

Sad.

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William Lewis  Dec 29, 2018 • 6:27:44am

re: #37 Sionainn, Fierce Mother

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ObserverArt  Dec 29, 2018 • 6:29:11am

re: #80 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

The one farthest from the inlet pipe—which isn’t always obvious. In our old house, the water entered under the kitchen, went to the upstairs bathroom, doubled back to the kitchen, then went to the (later added) fixtures in the basement.

Sounds like it was plumbed by someone very inexperienced. Who doubles a line back? It should have had a 3/4” main line with 1/2” runs coming off it to the different outlet points.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Dec 29, 2018 • 6:29:19am

re: #61 Anymouse 🌹

If Jesus is involved in everything (or controls everything, or God does), such as ensuring you survive a medical condition, then he also causes the bad things (stillbirths, childhood cancer, birth defects, mass murder by gun, &c).

The people who post those sorts of graven images (prohibited by the X Commandments Suggestions) never want their deity to be responsible for the bad stuff even though they claim he is responsible for everything (such as a doctor spending years in school learning his or her skills).

Or as my brainwashed family will endlessly recite when bad things happen to them…Jesus is testing me…God is testing me…Holy Spirit is testing me…

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dangerman  Dec 29, 2018 • 6:34:13am

re: #12 Single-handed sailor

It has to dissipate 250 watts. While the CPU is rated at 94 watts the i7 9700 under full load generates 230 watts of heat.

It could heat up anymouses frozen pipes

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ObserverArt  Dec 29, 2018 • 6:35:12am

re: #90 MsJ

Funny what assumptions give you. I thought with you being in a small village you’d all be on well and septic.

The trace is apparently a tiny filament that you put on the pipes before putting on the insulation. It sounded like something ** I ** could do so I’m not sure if you need a plumber. But I can’t say for sure.

I think you must have forgot about ‘mouse and all the work he does on the water tower and system. A water tower means a central system for the town or village.

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Jay C  Dec 29, 2018 • 6:37:41am

re: #127 Targetpractice

Speaking of election fraud, I’m curious how the whole matter with NC-09 is gonna play out next week. The board broke up without certifying the election, which the NC GOP continues to insist they “won” because despite all the evidence to the contrary they insist it was perfectly legit and nobody proved otherwise, so I don’t know if they’ve any legal standing to challenge the House Dems refusing to seat Harris.

I think any “legal challenge” is likely doomed from the start, as I believe it is a Constitutional provision that each House of Congress is responsible for setting the terms of, and regulating the admission of their respective members. So NC-09 is likely to remain vacant until the state can get its act together.

Also: from Anne Laurie at Balloon Juice: : remember that BFD “probe” House (GOP) Reps. were going to stage to investigate the “disparate” investigations the FBI did on the 2016 Clinton and Trump campaigns? Don’t worry, I’d forgotten it, too: Bob Goodlatte and Trey Gowdy have apparently wrapped up the first phase of their probe, and sent a letter along to DoJ, the IG and Mitch McConnell (?). Bottom line: more investigation needed. (Translation: “We got nuthin’”)

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dangerman  Dec 29, 2018 • 6:39:43am

re: #33 gwangung

ANd we should say the absolute worst way to do border security is a physical wall. It’s a defense where the terrorists ARENT’. It does nothing for cyber attacks. It does nothing for over-extended visas. It does nothing for American enemies coming from the north.

The wall focuses on people who are weaker, poorer, less knowledgeable and less endowed than any of our real enemies.

A wall diverts resources from defending from the enemies who are attacking us. It PREVENTS real border security.

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ObserverArt  Dec 29, 2018 • 6:40:52am

re: #96 jeffreyw

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Good morning!

Looks like the squirrel is fattening up on those nuts for the winter.

Is that a sign the winter is going to be cold in your area?

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bd(Redacted)  Dec 29, 2018 • 6:43:07am

Later Lizards. Off to the gym, if I am to keep my 2018 resolution to lose weight I may as well start now!

//

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Dec 29, 2018 • 6:43:08am

re: #108 Anymouse 🌹

…Our rate is $3.75 for 1,000 gallons.

That’s only 3.54¢ short of $1 per metric ton (At 4º C., of course.) Must be a coincidence—there’s no way they would have figured it out that way….

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dangerman  Dec 29, 2018 • 6:43:39am

re: #37 Sionainn, Fierce Mother

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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 29, 2018 • 6:44:38am

re: #37 Sionainn, Fierce Mother

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 29, 2018 • 6:45:22am

re: #127 Targetpractice

Speaking of election fraud, I’m curious how the whole matter with NC-09 is gonna play out next week. The board broke up without certifying the election, which the NC GOP continues to insist they “won” because despite all the evidence to the contrary they insist it was perfectly legit and nobody proved otherwise, so I don’t know if they’ve any legal standing to challenge the House Dems refusing to seat Harris.

Under NC state law, an election which has the appearance of being tainted can be rejected by the election commission. That’s exactly what they did. The GOP could have called for a new election (allowed under state law and the election commission would probably have granted that request), instead they’re going for “Democrats stole the election from us!!! There’s no proof there was fraud!!! (Never mind the guy was a convicted felon for insurance fraud, he was referred for prosecution for the same type of behaviour in the past, he admitted doing it to an election commission panel, &c).

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ObserverArt  Dec 29, 2018 • 6:48:13am

re: #98 Dr Lizardo

This is…….gonna make for an interesting year ahead, that’s for damned sure:

…

nydailynews.com

I hope that leads to Trump’s companies all being investigated since it is probably going on at all of them. Mar-a-Lago is a good bet.

Speaking of Mar-a-Lago, I see there are stories saying Trump is staying in DC for New Years eve, but is conflicted because of all the dues paying members wanting to party with their Donny.

I’m thinking he will cry and moan and then say “many people” told him to forget about all that, he needs to get away from all the nasty politics and be around those that love him to recharge for the big fight with the Dems.

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MsJ  Dec 29, 2018 • 6:49:37am

re: #134 ObserverArt

I think you must have forgot about ‘mouse and all the work he does on the water tower and system. A water tower means a central system for the town or village.

I’m from Chicago. Anyone any farther than the first suburb is rural to me. It’s my city slicker ignorance shining through like a blowed-up-real-good Electrical grid transformer.

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 29, 2018 • 6:51:10am

re: #144 MsJ

I’m from Chicago. Anyone any farther than the first suburb is rural to me. It’s my city slicker ignorance shining through like a blowed-up-real-good Electrical grid transformer.

LOL. My mother lives in the Chicago suburbs (within the city limits): 6500N and 6500W. That’s practically in Iowa.

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ObserverArt  Dec 29, 2018 • 6:52:31am

re: #107 Dr Lizardo

Just imagine the AG of New Jersey or New York bringing up the POTUS on RICO charges.

Holy shit; scandal of the century, right there.

I’ve thought from the first revelations of Russian activity that RICO was going to be in play.

Fun thing is, Donny doesn’t seem to understand that he doesn’t have to be directly linked if everyone and everything under him is corrupt and criminal.

He thinks they need to find his fingerprints on everything.

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dangerman  Dec 29, 2018 • 6:53:17am

re: #56 Anymouse 🌹

Try playing the hammered dulcimer. It’s nearly all tuning.

autoharp

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 29, 2018 • 6:53:52am

Kurt Eichenwald has abandoned Nextdoor. He’s tired of all the Cruz supporters in his town plumping for Ted Cruz there.

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ObserverArt  Dec 29, 2018 • 6:54:24am

re: #109 bd(Redacted)

Good morning Lizards:

LOL, I felt a great disturbance in the force……

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You go and do that Billy.

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dangerman  Dec 29, 2018 • 6:55:05am

re: #60 Anymouse 🌹

I keep seeing the whataboutism derp from conservatives over Trump’s hat-sigining with troops versus Michelle Obama signing a copy of

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Esquire magazine with her picture on the cover.

Those are not the same (aside from what was apparently screening since the Trump visit was blazingly white). Mrs. Obama was not signing campaign paraphernalia.

Trump’s stunt put enlisted personnel in a position of being prosecuted under the UCMJ (Article 92, Disobeying a Lawful Order—specifically, no politicking in uniform). The officers who allowed this travesty should be charged for conduct unbecoming an officer and if they ordered them to be there giving illegal orders.

behavior of the troops aside,
mrs obama was not the president

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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 29, 2018 • 6:55:06am

re: #109 bd(Redacted)

Good morning Lizards:

LOL, I felt a great disturbance in the force……

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Remember that health care repeal was only one vote away from actually happening; it failed because a dying McCain gave the finger to Trump. There remains no way to protect against continued active sabotage of the ACA by Trump because the new Republican Senate will cheer it on and will not vote for Pelosi legislation to protect the law.

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MsJ  Dec 29, 2018 • 6:55:07am

re: #145 Anymouse 🌹

LOL. My mother lives in the Chicago suburbs (within the city limits): 6500N and 6500W. That’s practically in Iowa.

That’s near O’Hare… Practically a cornfield!

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MsJ  Dec 29, 2018 • 6:57:15am

re: #150 dangerman

behavior of the troops aside,
mrs obama was not the president

And Essence magazine (with her face in the cover) isn’t political gear.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Dec 29, 2018 • 7:01:20am

re: #153 MsJ

And Essence magazine (with her face in the cover) isn’t political gear.

And if tRump were autographing copies of some magazine with his picture on the cover, no one would have objected….

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 29, 2018 • 7:01:29am

re: #143 ObserverArt

I hope that leads to Trump’s companies all being investigated since it is probably going on at all of them. Mar-a-Lago is a good bet.

Speaking of Mar-a-Lago, I see there are stories saying Trump is staying in DC for New Years eve, but is conflicted because of all the dues paying members wanting to party with their Donny.

I’m thinking he will cry and moan and then say “many people” told him to forget about all that, he needs to get away from all the nasty politics and be around those that love him to recharge for the big fight with the Dems.

Yeah, I can see Trump doing that. He’s such a fucking baby.

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jeffreyw  Dec 29, 2018 • 7:02:23am

re: #137 ObserverArt

Looks like the squirrel is fattening up on those nuts for the winter.

Is that a sign the winter is going to be cold in your area?

It’s rare we get a capture of a squirrel with a peanut, I think they prefer the sunflower seeds. This is the first year for feeding more than an occasional peanut. Mrs J is now buying them by the big-assed bag. I’m gonna go with mild winter because that has been the trend

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dangerman  Dec 29, 2018 • 7:03:39am

re: #105 HappyWarrior

He’s a gangster. No different from the Gambinos or Luchesse.

not as smart
or ‘successful’

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 29, 2018 • 7:05:41am

Barney: Jurassic Park Edition

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Barefoot Grin  Dec 29, 2018 • 7:07:57am

re: #138 bd(Redacted)

Later Lizards. Off to the gym, if I am to keep my 2018 resolution to lose weight I may as well start now!

//

You’ve got a couple more days….

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ObserverArt  Dec 29, 2018 • 7:10:46am

re: #151 Hecuba’s daughter

Remember that health care repeal was only one vote away from actually happening; it failed because a dying McCain gave the finger to Trump. There remains no way to protect against continued active sabotage of the ACA by Trump because the new Republican Senate will cheer it on and will not vote for Pelosi legislation to protect the law.

I think the ACA will end up being reset and strengthened with the Democrats in the House.

Remember how with about a month to go in the elections all of the Republicans were forced to come out and say they all were for keeping the preexisting conditions allowance going and how important healthcare insurance was, etc. That was due to the polls showing the ACA is liked by a majority of Americans, including conservatives.

And many of them still lost their seats.

The ACA needs to be made a major policy of the Democrats and I think they have the mood of the country ready to support them. In my opinion, anyway.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 29, 2018 • 7:10:50am

re: #158 Dr Lizardo

Barney: Jurassic Park Edition

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I like how the kid has a red neckerchief ala Sam Neill’s Dr. Grant. Nice touch.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 29, 2018 • 7:11:36am

re: #157 dangerman

not as smart
or ‘successful’

True. He’s more like the Tattaligas in The Godfather universe.

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 29, 2018 • 7:12:44am

re: #161 HappyWarrior

I like how the kid has a red neckerchief ala Sam Neill’s Dr. Grant. Nice touch.

Look at the other two kids - child versions of Ian Malcom and Ellie Sattler.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 29, 2018 • 7:13:47am

re: #163 Dr Lizardo

Look at the other two kids - child versions of Ian Malcom and Ellie Sattler.

Yep caught that too.

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dangerman  Dec 29, 2018 • 7:14:11am

re: #132 Joe Bacon 🌹

Or as my brainwashed family will endlessly recite when bad things happen to them…Jesus is testing me…God is testing me…Holy Spirit is testing me…

or maybe the other team prayed harder

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dangerman  Dec 29, 2018 • 7:16:36am

re: #135 Jay C

I think any “legal challenge” is likely doomed from the start, as I believe it is a Constitutional provision that each House of Congress is responsible for setting the terms of, and regulating the admission of their respective members. So NC-09 is likely to remain vacant until the state can get its act together.

Also: from Anne Laurie at Balloon Juice: : remember that BFD “probe” House (GOP) Reps. were going to stage to investigate the “disparate” investigations the FBI did on the 2016 Clinton and Trump campaigns? Don’t worry, I’d forgotten it, too: Bob Goodlatte and Trey Gowdy have apparently wrapped up the first phase of their probe, and sent a letter along to DoJ, the IG and Mitch McConnell (?). Bottom line: more investigation needed. (Translation: “We got nuthin’”)

no actual ‘findings’ at all which is why they wrote a letter
they had nothing to put into a ‘report’

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Dec 29, 2018 • 7:17:10am

re: #5 goddamnedfrank

Upding for teratoma of a preznit.

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 29, 2018 • 7:20:47am

re: #164 HappyWarrior

Looks like there’s going to be Jurassic World 3; apparently, Colin Trevorrow said he wants to explore the theme of not only how we humans would cope in a world where dinosaurs have come back and are running around out there (the ending of JW: Fallen Kingdom) but also the idea that the tech to make such creatures, even custom-made dinos, is also now out there in the world, available to those with the dough to make it happen.

Those are interesting thematic concepts, I have to admit.

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Danack  Dec 29, 2018 • 7:37:04am

re: #99 MsJ

Fascinating supposition. Please let it be true.

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That’s quite the theory…..and one I quite like.

What’s interesting to me is trying to figure out why this information is coming out now. Quoting from the original article where that revealed the info about Cohen’s phones

A mobile phone traced to President Donald Trump’s former lawyer and “fixer” Michael Cohen briefly sent signals ricocheting off cell towers in the Prague area in late summer 2016, at the height of the presidential campaign, leaving an electronic record to support claims that Cohen met secretly there with Russian officials, four people with knowledge of the matter say.

Very, very little information has been leaked by the Mueller investigation, and now suddenly, four people are giving out the same information about Cohen’s phone?

That’s either quite the coincidence or a deliberate strategy of someone’s choosing to make sure that information reaches both the public, and the subjects under investigation.

Although making predictions, particularly about the future, is always a risky business, I’m going to predict that we’re just days away from a lot of information being released, and a lot of indictments being made public.

The Republicans in Congress were complicit in some of the crimes that were committed, and seemed to be willing to do almost anything to cover them up. While the Republicans were still in power, there was the possibility for any prosecutions by the Mueller investigation to be blocked. With the Democrats taking control of congress, Mueller is a lot more free to move and will be at least until the end of the coming Congress. As prosecutions for the crimes committed by the Republicans are going to have long court processes, he might want to get started as quickly as possible, once the new Congress is sworn in.

Making a wild guess, the four sources revealing that Mueller has evidence that Cohen’s phone was near Prague is an (final?) attempt to get Don Jr to flip and give evidence against his father. Assuming that Michael Cohen has given evidence that he lent that phone to Don Jr, it puts into the open the information that Mueller can prove that Don Jr was in/near Prague to meet the Russians to conspire with them.

Letting that info be known on the 20th of December leaves two weeks before the next Congress is sworn in on the 3rd of January. Which is enough time for Don Jr to talk to his lawyers and come to a decision.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Dec 29, 2018 • 7:41:37am

Morning Lizardim from the bitterly cold and snow-covered wild north country. It’s been a wild and crazy week here - and the weather’s been interesting, too. How go things among the lizardfolk on this wintry pre-New Year weekend?

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Barefoot Grin  Dec 29, 2018 • 7:44:32am

Greg Sargent has made the good point that by cutting off aid to northern Central American countries Trump can be guaranteed more and more caravans of people needing asylum. Whether intentional or more instinctive, his impulse is always to use the suffering of others to help himself.

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jaunte  Dec 29, 2018 • 7:45:18am

I see the GOP twitter feed is officially adopting the ALL CAPS tantrum stylings of Dear Leader.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 29, 2018 • 7:45:43am

re: #172 jaunte

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I see the GOP twitter feed is officially adopting the ALL CAPS tantrum stylings of Dear Leader.

How about no)

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jaunte  Dec 29, 2018 • 7:46:15am

re: #173 HappyWarrior

And also NO for the hard of hearing.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 29, 2018 • 7:46:57am

re: #172 jaunte

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I see the GOP twitter feed is officially adopting the ALL CAPS tantrum stylings of Dear Leader.

I wish Ronna’s grandfather/Mitt’s father would come back and kick their asses. George Romney unlike his son and granddaughter wasn’t a bigoted jackal.

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jaunte  Dec 29, 2018 • 7:51:15am

re: #170 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

It’s a balmy 44 degrees, cloudy and damp as a dishrag here in Mud Gully Texas, and the dog is eager to get outside and bother the armadillos.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Dec 29, 2018 • 7:54:38am

re: #176 jaunte

It’s a balmy 44 degrees, cloudy and damp as a dishrag here in Mud Gully Texas, and the dog is eager to get outside and bother the armadillos.

This morning dawned at 4 degrees F (-15.6 degrees C), and I think the high today is supposed to barely clear single digits of degrees F. Later on in the holiday weekend, the lows are projected to dip as far as -10 degrees F (-23.3 degrees C). And that’s not even the coldest it gets around these parts.

We also had a fun ride where Wednesday night it snowed overnight, followed by rain on Thursday (turning the snow into a concrete-like mush that many snowblowers couldn’t handle), followed by MORE snow Thursday night, and then freezing temperatures just to make sure the roads were as fucked up as possible.

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ObserverArt  Dec 29, 2018 • 7:56:31am

re: #170 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Morning Lizardim from the bitterly cold and snow-covered wild north country. It’s been a wild and crazy week here - and the weather’s been interesting, too. How go things among the lizardfolk on this wintry pre-New Year weekend?

How much snow did you get dumped on you? I heard on the local news Duluth got just over a foot or so.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Dec 29, 2018 • 7:57:22am

re: #178 ObserverArt

How much snow did you get dumped on you? I heard on the local news Duluth got just over a foot or so.

Down here in the southern part of the state, not so much; overall, we got maybe 2 inches total. Combined with the rain (see my #177 above), though, it was a royal pain in the ass to deal with.

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MsJ  Dec 29, 2018 • 8:10:11am

re: #160 ObserverArt

I think the ACA will end up being reset and strengthened with the Democrats in the House.

Remember how with about a month to go in the elections all of the Republicans were forced to come out and say they all were for keeping the preexisting conditions allowance going and how important healthcare insurance was, etc. That was due to the polls showing the ACA is liked by a majority of Americans, including conservatives.

And many of them still lost their seats.

The ACA needs to be made a major policy of the Democrats and I think they have the mood of the country ready to support them. In my opinion, anyway.

That would be nice. Unfortunately Republicans don’t do common sense. And they lie. About everything.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Dec 29, 2018 • 8:13:16am

Conservatives do drink a lot of it

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MsJ  Dec 29, 2018 • 8:15:00am

re: #169 Danack

Junior is never going to turn on daddy(’s money).

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ObserverArt  Dec 29, 2018 • 8:18:37am

re: #180 MsJ

That would be nice. Unfortunately Republicans don’t do common sense. And they lie. About everything.

But they do like staying elected. If their constituents want improvements in healthcare insurance they will be forced to give in or out they go.

And sure, I would like to see them go, but if they are forced to give in and work with the Democrats, then that is a good thing.

Plus, they really showed their asses by complaining about Obamacare and how they were going to replace it and make it better and they did nothing. Even their own know how that all went. They get control of Congress and the White House and they did nothing but try to sneak a way to kill it against even their own.

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MsJ  Dec 29, 2018 • 8:21:34am

re: #183 ObserverArt

But they do like staying elected. If their constituents want improvements in healthcare insurance they will be forced to give in or out they go.

And sure, I would like to see them go, but if they are forced to give in and work with the Democrats, then that is a good thing.

Plus, they really showed their asses by complaining about Obamacare and how they were going to replace it and make it better and they did nothing. Even their own know how that all went. They get control of Congress and the White House and they did nothing but try to sneak a way to kill it against even their own.

They just got their asses handed to them on a platter. Have they changed anything? They let trump shut down the government. And are bitching that Dems did it… Even after trump bragged about it.

There does not appear to be a self protection gene in any of them, or in the party as a whole.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Dec 29, 2018 • 8:26:27am

re: #183 ObserverArt

But they do like staying elected. If their constituents want improvements in healthcare insurance they will be forced to give in or out they go.

And sure, I would like to see them go, but if they are forced to give in and work with the Democrats, then that is a good thing.

Plus, they really showed their asses by complaining about Obamacare and how they were going to replace it and make it better and they did nothing. Even their own know how that all went. They get control of Congress and the White House and they did nothing but try to sneak a way to kill it against even their own.

It’s an article of wingnut faith that Obamacare was a complete failure and was replaced by the Republicans with the totally different “ACA”. I’ve been seeing this claim for years.

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Eventual Carrion  Dec 29, 2018 • 8:26:53am

re: #7 Single-handed sailor

Tell me the truth, does my motherboard make my heat-sink look big?

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No honey, it looks fine
*walks out of room*

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dangerman  Dec 29, 2018 • 8:34:57am

re: #170 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Morning Lizardim from the bitterly cold and snow-covered wild north country. It’s been a wild and crazy week here - and the weather’s been interesting, too. How go things among the lizardfolk on this wintry pre-New Year weekend?

it’s 81 here (sorry)
had a nice shirtless 9 mile run this am (sorry)
13.1 scheduled for tomorrow (sorry)

shopping today to lay in supplies for the new year’s eve brisket wars
we’re going with the bon appetit red wine braised recipe someone posted here a week or so ago

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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 29, 2018 • 8:38:32am

re: #184 MsJ

They just got their asses handed to them on a platter. Have they changed anything? They let trump shut down the government. And are bitching that Dems did it… Even after trump bragged about it.

There does not appear to be a self protection gene in any of them, or in the party as a whole.

Except that wasn’t true in the Senate. Possibly due to the Kavanaugh nomination and Trump’s success in DARVOing by making the judge the victim, several Democrats went down to defeat. The GOP Senate will do whatever their donors tell them — and their donors are hostile to the ACA — as well as Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. At least the Pelosi house can protect those programs for the next 2 years. But the budget deficits will eventually force some kind of showdown — and until the Dems take back the Senate and the Presidency, there is no way to deal with that problem using the best tool: repealing the GOP tax cuts for the rich.

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dangerman  Dec 29, 2018 • 8:40:47am

re: #183 ObserverArt

But they do like staying elected. If their constituents want improvements in healthcare insurance they will be forced to give in or out they go.

And sure, I would like to see them go, but if they are forced to give in and work with the Democrats, then that is a good thing.

Plus, they really showed their asses by complaining about Obamacare and how they were going to replace it and make it better and they did nothing. Even their own know how that all went. They get control of Congress and the White House and they did nothing but try to sneak a way to kill it against even their own.

the bold is functional representative democracy in a nutshell

the italics shows that gaining and holding power at any cost, for its own sake, while ignoring who got you there is not a long term winning formula

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TedStriker  Dec 29, 2018 • 8:45:46am

re: #86 MsJ

Yes you do.

I’m assuming you’re on well/septic and if so letting a faucet drip is expensive. Hubby (the engineer) said get an “electrical heat trace” on the pipes that get cold and insulate them. The trace provides very low electrical resistance, which warms the pipes, and insulate over that trace (you must insulate the trace!) You’re pipes will never freeze up.

Hubs says the trace isn’t expensive and the insulation is even less expensive BUT insulation alone will likely not stop the freezing as you have areas in your house that are not heated and NE gets really cold.

Can’t do that with PEX, which is what sounds like AM said the pipes that had burst before were replaced with.

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MsJ  Dec 29, 2018 • 8:47:43am

re: #188 Hecuba’s daughter

Except that wasn’t true in the Senate.

Yet.

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jaunte  Dec 29, 2018 • 8:47:44am

One export crop destroyed. Next!

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MsJ  Dec 29, 2018 • 8:52:06am

re: #192 jaunte

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One export crop destroyed. Next!

What’s worse is that this is permanent. Not only are Canada and the other already established players in the mix but now Brazil is, too. What they lacked was infrastructure which they’re remedying as I type meaning they’re now a competitor forever.

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dangerman  Dec 29, 2018 • 8:52:50am

a moment of silliness at the airport

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ObserverArt  Dec 29, 2018 • 8:57:34am

re: #193 MsJ

What’s worse is that this is permanent. Not only are Canada and the other already established players in the mix but now Brazil is, too. What they lacked was infrastructure which they’re remedying as I type meaning they’re now a competitor forever.

Welcome to a new world economy. The USA politicians stuck in old world thinking and a robust economy after WW2 had better realize that fast or we will find ourselves falling more and more as a trade partner and the leading economy. You can already see that occurring now.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 29, 2018 • 8:57:39am

hope the moron is holding his breath

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dangerman  Dec 29, 2018 • 8:58:56am

re: #196 Backwoods_Sleuth

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hope the moron is holding his breath

he is def running out of material

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jaunte  Dec 29, 2018 • 8:59:44am

re: #196 Backwoods_Sleuth

The Mueller Angry Democrats

Part of being an actual marketing genius is knowing you can’t be seen to be trying so hard every time.

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dangerman  Dec 29, 2018 • 9:00:18am

Walter Shaub
‏Verified account
@waltshaub

We are paying for security for the Mar-a-Lago New Year’s Eve party during the Trump shutdown. Secret Service can continue providing essential security during a lapse of appropriations, but it’s Trump who decides that govt officials need to be at his for-profit event. Shameless!

even if it turns out he doesn’t attend

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I Would Prefer Not To  Dec 29, 2018 • 9:01:48am

re: #199 dangerman

Walter Shaub
‏Verified account
@waltshaub

even if it turns out he doesn’t attend

He’s going to fine a reason to fly in at the last minute. How do I know? He makes money off the event that’s how.

And, fuck you trump.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 29, 2018 • 9:02:26am
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MsJ  Dec 29, 2018 • 9:02:42am
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MsJ  Dec 29, 2018 • 9:03:05am

re: #194 dangerman

a moment of silliness at the airport

Ok. Stop that! 🤣

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 29, 2018 • 9:03:42am
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MsJ  Dec 29, 2018 • 9:04:31am

re: #196 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 29, 2018 • 9:05:39am
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jaunte  Dec 29, 2018 • 9:06:53am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 29, 2018 • 9:06:53am
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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 29, 2018 • 9:07:37am

re: #192 jaunte

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One export crop destroyed. Next!

Conspiracy theory (way over the top): Putin wants to destroy the US completely but the Russian economy is 10% of ours. So Trump, as a Putin asset, is deliberately working on implementing Putin’s plans to damage one industry at a time and reducing us to Russia’s level.

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PhillyPretzel  Dec 29, 2018 • 9:08:59am

re: #208 Backwoods_Sleuth

That is not sad. It is fitting.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 29, 2018 • 9:09:31am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 29, 2018 • 9:10:59am
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plansbandc  Dec 29, 2018 • 9:11:24am
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dangerman  Dec 29, 2018 • 9:16:34am

re: #202 MsJ

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re: #194 dangerman

yeah this guy

i cant embed tweets

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plansbandc  Dec 29, 2018 • 9:19:25am

re: #170 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

It’s a whopping 19 degrees, up from 7 when I was walking doggo. I do not care for it.

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dangerman  Dec 29, 2018 • 9:20:39am

re: #203 MsJ

Ok. Stop that! 🤣

re: #214 dangerman

yeah this guy

i cant embed tweets

oh ;-)

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I Would Prefer Not To  Dec 29, 2018 • 9:20:57am

re: #215 plansbandc

It’s a whopping 19 degrees, up from 7 when I was walking doggo. I do not care for it.

It’s 50 in NYC and I’m going to go for a walk on the beach.

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PhillyPretzel  Dec 29, 2018 • 9:22:44am

re: #170 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

re: #215 plansbandc

re: #217 I Would Prefer Not To

It is 50 degrees in Philly. And here is the forecast: forecast.weather.gov

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 29, 2018 • 9:23:07am

What are the odds Trump is at Mar-A-Lago and just claiming he’s at the White House?

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dangerman  Dec 29, 2018 • 9:23:48am

re: #209 Hecuba’s daughter

Conspiracy theory (way over the top): Putin wants to destroy the US completely but the Russian economy is 10% of ours. So Trump, as a Putin asset, is deliberately working on implementing Putin’s plans to damage one industry at a time and reducing us to Russia’s level.

anything that attributes “deliberate”, plan, goal, strategy, thinking, etc to trump is way off
(doesnt mean putin isnt directly pulling his strings)

there aint no plan

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BlueGrl21  Dec 29, 2018 • 9:23:54am

re: #148 Anymouse 🌹

Kurt Eichenwald has abandoned Nextdoor. He’s tired of all the Cruz supporters in his town plumping for Ted Cruz there.

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I quit my neighborhood Next Door and Facebook due to their horrible racism. I have young black men at my house constantly…my husband’s players. They’re in and out of the house and sometimes they’re waiting for us in a car in the driveway. Some asshole started posting about it. I got so pissed I told the entire group of them their fucking racist bullshit was going to get one of our kids shot or killed, and I have screen shots of everything they’d posted and I would be turning it over to the media, with their names, if even one of the kids is threatened.

Lots of people in our community know my husband and know I absolutely will do it. Coach is still on those groups and he said they’re silent now. It’s back to posting about selling couches.

Assholes.

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plansbandc  Dec 29, 2018 • 9:24:31am

re: #217 I Would Prefer Not To

Have fun. Damn it. :D

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makeitstop  Dec 29, 2018 • 9:24:42am

It’s an unusually nice day here for the end of December, so we’re going to head out to Staten Island of all places to see the NYC Winter Lantern Festival (after an early dinner at a nearby beer garden). There will be photos…here’s video.

Cold, colorful and fun night at the NYC Winter Lantern Festival

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Unshaken Defiance  Dec 29, 2018 • 9:25:37am

re: #218 PhillyPretzel

It is 50 degrees in Philly. And here is the forecast: forecast.weather.gov

Dunno how you folks in real cold can cope. But then I was raised in the desert heat.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 29, 2018 • 9:25:45am

re: #221 BlueGrl21

I quit my neighborhood FB over extreme pettiness and stupid grade school whining, along with some other bullshit.

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plansbandc  Dec 29, 2018 • 9:25:55am

re: #221 BlueGrl21

Oh yes lots of racism. Pointing out all the “lurking” brown people. In New Mexico (!)

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 29, 2018 • 9:26:54am

Okay just for the hell of it, I looked on Nextdoor’s main page to see if there’s anything that crazy anywhere close by. It turns out we have a county group, and the latest message is about my street:

Car break-in on Wehn St, see anything?
Crime and Safety * 6 replies

No, I didn’t see anything. Moreover, in a town with more guns with people that doesn’t sound really safe. That and only about three people park on the whole street including me.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Dec 29, 2018 • 9:32:27am

re: #221 BlueGrl21

I quit my home town Facebook page. Endless posts kissing Trump’s ass!

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retired cynic  Dec 29, 2018 • 9:32:48am

re: #207 jaunte

Email sent! Thanks.

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 29, 2018 • 9:34:15am

re: #211 Backwoods_Sleuth

I didn’t join for any of those reasons. I stayed because I liked what I was doing and (cue sappy patriotic line) serving my country. Screw that guy.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 29, 2018 • 9:36:49am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 29, 2018 • 9:38:13am
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jaunte  Dec 29, 2018 • 9:38:31am

re: #220 dangerman

anything that attributes “deliberate”, plan, goal, strategy, thinking, etc to trump is way off
(doesnt mean putin isnt directly pulling his strings)

there aint no plan

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jaunte  Dec 29, 2018 • 9:42:25am
“…The monkey wears an expression of seriousness which would do credit to any college student, but the monkey is serious because he itches.”
—Robert M. Hutchins
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ObserverArt  Dec 29, 2018 • 9:44:59am

Anyone else sick of using Chrome as a browser?

I had two tabs open on my older Win 7 machine and Google was unresponsive. I checked and Chrome had 22 processes going on in task manager. The two sites had tons of ads and videos…sports related.

I’m really getting sick of online advertising, even knowing it is important to businesses.

I really think the web engineers need to figure a better way to do all of this. Most of the time people want to get to the content quickly. But no, you can’t actually use the scroll bar or anything you want because the ads loading take precedence.

How much freaking RAM do we have to have anyway?

Sorry for the rant due to frustration. Arrrgh.

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retired cynic  Dec 29, 2018 • 9:45:59am

re: #235 ObserverArt

I just use Safari.

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jaunte  Dec 29, 2018 • 9:46:34am
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makeitstop  Dec 29, 2018 • 9:49:24am

re: #228 Joe Bacon 🌹

I quit my home town Facebook page. Endless posts kissing Trump’s ass!

My wife belongs to our neighborhood FB group, and she often tells me about what assholes our neighbors are.

I won’t even look at it, because I’d end up making a list and going around the neighborhood slapping people in the head.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Dec 29, 2018 • 9:49:56am

re: #237 jaunte

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Pay frozen yet again.

And my health insurance is going up 11%.

Fuck you, Trump!

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I Would Prefer Not To  Dec 29, 2018 • 9:50:48am

re: #238 makeitstop

My wife belongs to our neighborhood FB group, and she often tells me about what assholes our neighbors are.

I won’t even look at it, because I’d end up making a list and going around the neighborhood slapping people in the head.

And. Sounds like a good exercise program. Might know some sense into people.

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ObserverArt  Dec 29, 2018 • 9:51:00am

re: #232 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Fuck the Trumpers like Mulvaney.

He is making an argument out of whole cloth in hopes it pleases the rubes and buys time for a change in thinking that is not coming.

Plus the fact they like using Pelosi as a punching bag.

Protecting Pelosi? Please.

Try protecting the Big Orange Asshole. That is what Mick is really doing.

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ObserverArt  Dec 29, 2018 • 9:53:42am

re: #236 retired cynic

I just use Safari.

I might have to give it a try.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 29, 2018 • 9:54:17am
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Joe Bacon 🌹  Dec 29, 2018 • 9:55:20am

re: #243 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Precisely what I would expect to hear from a supporter of the IRA.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 29, 2018 • 9:56:06am

re: #243 Backwoods_Sleuth

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“Only two” Fuck off IRA Petey.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Dec 29, 2018 • 9:56:09am

Here’s what daughter had to say about mom’s abilities.

Thinking that the woman is going to cave because she’s a woman is going to bite them in the ass and is one of the many reasons they lost in Nov.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Dec 29, 2018 • 9:57:52am

re: #246 I Would Prefer Not To

Here’s what daughter had to say about mom’s abilities.

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Thinking that the woman is going to cave because she’s a woman is going to bite them in the ass and is one of the many reasons they lost in Nov.

5 days to go before Nancy gets her hands on Shithead’s tax returns…and turns them over to Maxine…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 29, 2018 • 10:00:29am
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Dr Lizardo  Dec 29, 2018 • 10:00:40am

re: #247 Joe Bacon 🌹

5 days to go before Nancy gets her hands on Shithead’s tax returns…and turns them over to Maxine…

Trump’s gonna absolutely lose his shit. We all think he’s crazy now……just wait.

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 29, 2018 • 10:01:28am

Gay Navy sailor recreates iconic New York WWII kiss photo with his husband but faces brutal homophobic backlash for the modern twist (Daily Mail)

One is stationed aboard the USS The Sullivans.

Bryan Woodington, 33, and husband Kenneth, 30, recreated the iconic WWII kiss
Bryan, a Navy sailor, was returning home to Florida after seven months in the Persian Gulf and Europe when the photo was taken
The couple won a lottery to perform the ceremonial first kiss, a naval tradition
Some have been critical of the couple, while others are embracing the kiss
‘There are people who see the beauty in it,’ Kenneth said. ‘As for those who don’t, have a nice day.’

Bryan Woodington, 33, returned home to Florida after seven months in the Persian Gulf and Europe on December 21, to greet husband of one year Kenneth Woodington, 30.

The couple won a lottery to perform the ceremonial first kiss, a naval tradition that was captured on Jacksonville station News 4 Jax.

But the station reports that not all their viewers were pleased with the same-sex couple’s intimate moment, and News 4 Jax was ‘bombarded’ by hate messages.

and

Once it was broadcast on News4Jax, the hate messages began flooding in.

‘How sad that your station has dropped to such a low as to show a gay couple kissing on your newscast,’ one viewer wrote.

‘I’ll never watch your news again!!!! So long, News4Jax’ another viewer wrote to the station. ‘I thought this was a ”family friendly” news channel.’

‘How many people are now trying to explain to [their] young kids why 2 men were kissing. very disgusting. An ex [viewer],’ another said.

(more)

They are not the first same-sex couple: in 2011 two women did the same.

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Unshaken Defiance  Dec 29, 2018 • 10:02:15am

re: #249 Dr Lizardo

Trump’s gonna absolutely lose his shit. We all think he’s crazy now……just wait.

Considering the executive power he still will wield, it’s a little scary. At least a child’s tantrum only threatens our ears, his toys, maybe the furniture.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 29, 2018 • 10:03:24am

Pelosi was making legislative deals while re: #250 Anymouse 🌹

Gay Navy sailor recreates iconic New York WWII kiss photo with his husband but faces brutal homophobic backlash for the modern twistLink (Daily Mail)

One is stationed aboard the USS The Sullivans.

Bryan Woodington, 33, and husband Kenneth, 30, recreated the iconic WWII kiss
Bryan, a Navy sailor, was returning home to Florida after seven months in the Persian Gulf and Europe when the photo was taken
The couple won a lottery to perform the ceremonial first kiss, a naval tradition
Some have been critical of the couple, while others are embracing the kiss
‘There are people who see the beauty in it,’ Kenneth said. ‘As for those who don’t, have a nice day.’

and

(more)

They are not the first same-sex couple: in 2011 two women did the same.

Bryan earned it. As for having to explain it your kiss? That’s a cop out. Kids get that love is love. Homophobic assholes don’t. In fact, I think their kiss is more meaningful than the original 1945 one since the sailor and nurse pictured weren’t lovers.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 29, 2018 • 10:04:40am
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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 29, 2018 • 10:06:35am

re: #237 jaunte

Last time I checked, that is not a function of the executive branch (other than to veto the enabling legislation). I suspect that executive order could be challenged as unconstitutional since the legislation was already passed.

If we had a competent president, he’d know that. If he had competent advisors, they could tell him. If conservatives in Congress were competent, they could tell him.

Instead, the Dumpster fire of conservative governance continues.

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 29, 2018 • 10:10:50am

LOL

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ObserverArt  Dec 29, 2018 • 10:11:19am

re: #252 HappyWarrior

Pelosi was making legislative deals while

Bryan earned it. As for having to explain it your kiss? That’s a cop out. Kids get that love is love. Homophobic assholes don’t. In fact, I think their kiss is more meaningful than the original 1945 one since the sailor and nurse pictured weren’t lovers.

In a way that original ‘45 image could be considered sexual harassment today. I think I remember that all being discussed when the “nurse” (dental assistant) died a few years back.

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Single-handed sailor  Dec 29, 2018 • 10:12:04am

re: #79 MsJ

Another good article. Hubby swears that Raw Story does this.

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I agree with your husband. Raw Story uses upwards of 30% CPU on an i7.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 29, 2018 • 10:14:43am

re: #256 ObserverArt

In a way that original ‘45 image could be considered sexual harassment today. I think I remember that all being discussed when the “nurse” (dental assistant) died a few years back.

Yeah I do remember that being discussed. I don’t think the sailor doing the kiss meant harm but it’s definitely something that rightfully wouldn’t be considered ok today.

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dangerman  Dec 29, 2018 • 10:15:59am

re: #231 Backwoods_Sleuth

Again, I ask: HAVE THEY MET HER????

not since the 12/11 tv fiasco

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 29, 2018 • 10:17:47am

re: #258 HappyWarrior

Yeah I do remember that being discussed. I don’t think the sailor doing the kiss meant harm but it’s definitely something that rightfully wouldn’t be considered ok today.

I suppose that would depend on whether the nurse welcomed the kiss or no. I don’t recall reading anything where she said anything about it.

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TedStriker  Dec 29, 2018 • 10:18:27am

re: #257 Single-handed sailor

I agree with your husband. Raw Story uses upwards of 30% CPU on an i7.

uBlock Origin (and, perhaps, NoScript) is your friend.

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Jay C  Dec 29, 2018 • 10:18:31am

re: #253 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Actually, just as old as I am today: another Thing I Never Knew….

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dangerman  Dec 29, 2018 • 10:23:28am

re: #235 ObserverArt

Anyone else sick of using Chrome as a browser?

I had two tabs open on my older Win 7 machine and Google was unresponsive. I checked and Chrome had 22 processes going on in task manager. The two sites had tons of ads and videos…sports related.

I’m really getting sick of online advertising, even knowing it is important to businesses.

I really think the web engineers need to figure a better way to do all of this. Most of the time people want to get to the content quickly. But no, you can’t actually use the scroll bar or anything you want because the ads loading take precedence.

How much freaking RAM do we have to have anyway?

Sorry for the rant due to frustration. Arrrgh.

one man’s anecdata
ive used chrome for years - mostly happily and without incident
chrome is never not on
same 7-10 tabs open all the time (including lgf)
sometimes it gets up to 15 - rarely

i only have problems with two sites and they are regular and consistent so i know my workarounds

all my software plays nice and without complaint while chrome chugs away
intensive tax software
libreoffice
foxit
pdfcreator
google (backup and sync) - im a big google drive user
teamviewer
gnucash
wmp
ms security essentials and defender
i dont get bsod’s. the low on resources message - maybe 1x a month or so

2012 dell, win 7, 64bit, 8g ram

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darthstar  Dec 29, 2018 • 10:25:29am

2019 is promising a whole new level of witch hunting…

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darthstar  Dec 29, 2018 • 10:26:19am
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ObserverArt  Dec 29, 2018 • 10:26:26am

re: #260 Anymouse 🌹

I suppose that would depend on whether the nurse welcomed the kiss or no. I don’t recall reading anything where she said anything about it.

She didn’t need to. It was just a natural discussion due to different times.

She died in her early 90s if I remember correctly and that picture was put up with the stories of her passing. That brought on the discussions and I am pretty sure the majority thinking was it was harassment.

And are kisses from a stranger ever considered welcome? Even then?

One thing for sure…times change.

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Belafon  Dec 29, 2018 • 10:26:27am

re: #47 goddamnedfrank

This thread renewed my faith in the basic goodness of the people who work at Trader Joes.

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Maybe the potato chip system at Trader Joe’s was sending out a distress signal: Help Me!

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Dec 29, 2018 • 10:27:00am

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dangerman  Dec 29, 2018 • 10:27:53am

re: #247 Joe Bacon 🌹

5 days to go before Nancy gets her hands on Shithead’s tax returns…and turns them over to Maxine…

to pick a nit, it’s the other way around
(if i understand it)
it’s the committee chairs that can subpoena the tax returns
and it’s becomes up to them who they share it with - the entire committee, the entire house, etc

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plansbandc  Dec 29, 2018 • 10:28:01am

My footy team is playing the worst I’ve ever seen them play. They are an embarrassment to soccer.

It’s so bad, I want to pick another team to root for. (I won’t, of course, because I am loyal AF, but damn.)

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William Lewis  Dec 29, 2018 • 10:28:41am

re: #179 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Down here in the southern part of the state, not so much; overall, we got maybe 2 inches total. Combined with the rain (see my #177 above), though, it was a royal pain in the ass to deal with.

Same over here is Hayward. The rain really messed everything up - had a skating rink instead of a parking lot with a good inch or three of ice in spots. Not my idea of fun. 9 degrees now so I’m not going to do the range trip I’d planned for the day.

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darthstar  Dec 29, 2018 • 10:28:47am
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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 29, 2018 • 10:29:44am

Yesterday, the National Review published an essay by Katherine Timpf titled “Student Found to Have Violated Title IX by Asking Another Student on a Date,” in which she went on and on about how very dreadful it was that a student was found guilty of stalking another because he simply asked her on a date she did not want to go on. The National Review has since retracted said essay because — as was plainly evident in the deposition Timpf linked to in the piece — said student had actually done a lot more than innocently ask a girl out on a date.

wonkette.com

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dangerman  Dec 29, 2018 • 10:31:27am

re: #262 Jay C

Actually, just as old as I am today: another Thing I Never Knew….

ok im having a day, so…..

just because something does something (ie ridges) does that mean it was designed for that purpose?

(oh, and stay off my lawn)

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Dec 29, 2018 • 10:33:34am

re: #273 Anymouse 🌹

I’ll never forget the Cambridge University debate between Buckley and Baldwin. Mom and Dad stood up and cheered when Baldwin finished his magnificent assassination of Buckley.

James Baldwin Debates William F. Buckley (1965)

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Unshaken Defiance  Dec 29, 2018 • 10:33:51am

re: #274 dangerman

Can’t recall when I ever wanted THAT much pepper. Or salt.

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darthstar  Dec 29, 2018 • 10:34:05am
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dangerman  Dec 29, 2018 • 10:34:31am

re: #265 darthstar

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add this to that:

Taxpayers Dish Out $54,000 For Mar-a-Lago Party Tents For New Year’s Eve

(mostly for security)

and that’s whether he shows up or not

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 29, 2018 • 10:35:17am

re: #266 ObserverArt

She didn’t need to. It was just a natural discussion due to different times.

She died in her early 90s if I remember correctly and that picture was put up with the stories of her passing. That brought on the discussions and I am pretty sure the majority thinking was it was harassment.

And are kisses from a stranger ever considered welcome? Even then?

One thing for sure…times change.

Usually unsolicited kisses are not welcome. However, the victory over Japan announcement was a unique time in the history of the country, which is why I wondered if she might have welcomed a kiss from a sailor.

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darthstar  Dec 29, 2018 • 10:35:53am

Children are dying in US custody and that asshole wants to use it to bash the Democrats? Always a new low.

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dangerman  Dec 29, 2018 • 10:38:00am

re: #277 darthstar

If we had a Wall, they wouldn’t even try!

dude,
we have walls
and they do try

you need to keep up

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Barefoot Grin  Dec 29, 2018 • 10:39:04am

Not a good day for Arsenal fans.

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dangerman  Dec 29, 2018 • 10:39:29am

re: #280 darthstar

Children are dying in US custody and that asshole wants to use it to bash the Democrats? Always a new low.

sure, blame
- anyone but the people who have custody of the children
- anyone but the people who are giving the orders and funding it all

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Dec 29, 2018 • 10:40:10am
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William Lewis  Dec 29, 2018 • 10:40:31am

re: #235 ObserverArt

Anyone else sick of using Chrome as a browser?
.

Nope. Works beautifully for me. Of course, I’ve been on XUbuntu Linux for years. Fast, simple, stable.

OTOH, Windows 7 is probably the real villain there. At minimum you need to reinstall it from scratch (as in backup your data, wipe the drive and install to a bare drive before restoring data) every 6 months just like every other version of Windows and ensure it’s always completely patched.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Dec 29, 2018 • 10:41:21am

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 29, 2018 • 10:42:49am

fucking moron

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William Lewis  Dec 29, 2018 • 10:44:07am

re: #270 plansbandc

My footy team is playing the worst I’ve ever seen them play. They are an embarrassment to soccer.

It’s so bad, I want to pick another team to root for. (I won’t, of course, because I am loyal AF, but damn.)

The Gunners are hanging in around 5th place like last year. They seem to be kind of stuck there. OTOH. it’s not Huddersfield Town level either so I can’t complain too much.

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ObserverArt  Dec 29, 2018 • 10:46:44am

Heh, It’s dead Jim. With a whisper and not a shout. Loudmouthed fuckers leave with tails tucked.

The Guardian -
Trump-Russia: Republican probe of alleged FBI bias ends ‘with a whimper’

Committee chairs issue just a letter rather than final report after inquiry that was condemned as ploy to undermine Robert Mueller

Republicans have quietly and unceremoniously ended their congressional investigation of whether the FBI and Justice Department were biased in their handling of inquiries into Hillary Clinton’s emails and Donald Trump’s ties to Russia.

House judiciary chairman Robert Goodlatte and oversight chairman Trey Gowdy, who are retiring next week, sent a letter rather than a full report to the Justice Department and the Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell. It wraps up an inquiry that was conducted mostly behind closed doors but also in public as Republican lawmakers often criticised interview subjects later and suggested they were conspiring against Trump.

Democrats have blasted the GOP-led congressional inquiry, saying it was merely meant as a distraction from special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation. Its termination comes less than a week before Republicans cede the House majority to Democrats.

Goodlatte and Gowdy say in their letter that they reviewed thousands of documents and conducted interviews that “revealed troubling facts which exacerbated our initial questions and concerns”. They call on the Justice Department to appoint a special counsel to investigate further. A separate report issued this year by the Justice Department’s own internal watchdog found there was no evidence that the then FBI chief James Comey or the department were motivated by political bias toward either candidate.

Jerry Nadler, the top Democrat on the judiciary committee, and Elijah Cummings, top Democrat on the oversight panel, are expected to formally end the investigation when they take power in January. Nadler has called it “nonsense”.

California’s Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the House intelligence committee, said on Friday evening that the Republican investigation was ending “not with a bang, but with a Friday, buried-in-the-holidays whimper, and one foot out the door”.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 29, 2018 • 10:52:40am

re: #250 Anymouse 🌹

These people…

Endless bloodshed and senseless shootings but: DON’T YOU DARE TAKE OUR FUCKING GUNS! ‘MERICA!

Two gay guys shown kissing on TV: OMG HOW DARE U! YOU’RE DESTROYING OUR SOCIETY! EVIL!

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Belafon  Dec 29, 2018 • 10:52:53am

re: #127 Targetpractice

Speaking of election fraud, I’m curious how the whole matter with NC-09 is gonna play out next week. The board broke up without certifying the election, which the NC GOP continues to insist they “won” because despite all the evidence to the contrary they insist it was perfectly legit and nobody proved otherwise, so I don’t know if they’ve any legal standing to challenge the House Dems refusing to seat Harris.

I posted a DK diary here about it yesterday. The new Congress isn’t going to seat him.

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dangerman  Dec 29, 2018 • 10:53:23am

re: #287 Backwoods_Sleuth

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fucking moron

How brilliant of a president to do this

Moron don’t cover it

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plansbandc  Dec 29, 2018 • 10:53:32am

re: #287 Backwoods_Sleuth

In all my years on this planet, I have never hated a human being more than I hate him.

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PhillyPretzel  Dec 29, 2018 • 10:54:20am

re: #293 plansbandc

You are not the only one.

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plansbandc  Dec 29, 2018 • 10:55:01am

re: #288 William Lewis

The utter lack of defensive play makes me want to switch my allegiance.

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 29, 2018 • 10:56:12am

Brace yourselves for ‘splodey heads:

The first season of The Punisher saw the Marvel vigilante going up against a corrupt CIA operative and a former ally who conspired to kill his family. But the latest villain in the Netflix series will be slightly more topical.

In a new report from Collider, we finally learned more about Frank Castle’s latest foe for The Punisher Season 2, a character named John Pilgrim played by actor Josh Stewart. The villain has been described as Alt-Right, a term that’s associated with white nationalism and extreme conservatives.

“On the exterior, [John Pilgrim] is a man who is a Christian Fundamentalist who had a rage, a violent side of him,” Stewart said. “It’s buried deep. I think where this is all headed, that sort of side of him is going to resurface a bit.”

Pilgrim is said to contrast Billy Russo, who will also return for Season 2, as a creepier and more uptight foe for Frank Castle.

comicbook.com

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 29, 2018 • 10:56:12am
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Charles Johnson  Dec 29, 2018 • 10:57:24am
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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 29, 2018 • 10:57:49am

re: #275 Joe Bacon 🌹

I’ll never forget the Cambridge University debate between Buckley and Baldwin. Mom and Dad stood up and cheered when Baldwin finished his magnificent assassination of Buckley.

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Video

“In forty years (quoting Robert Kennedy) we might have a Negro president.”

Came pretty close to nailing that prediction.

Then the right lost their damn minds.

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Romantic Heretic  Dec 29, 2018 • 10:59:48am

re: #235 ObserverArt

I can dig it.

My iPad, which I use for reading news apps, simply can’t handle the ads. Every time I see ‘advertisement’ in a separate window it’s a better than 70% chance the app will slow, stop, and then crash.

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William Lewis  Dec 29, 2018 • 11:00:13am

re: #287 Backwoods_Sleuth

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fucking moron

That fucker and his CBP/ICE Gestapo all need to face trials for their crimes against humanity.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 29, 2018 • 11:01:09am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 29, 2018 • 11:01:58am
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plansbandc  Dec 29, 2018 • 11:03:25am

So, after watching the whole first season of Glow, and it took the whole season, I have to say, I really love it.

Great diverse female characters, excellent acting, and it’s just plain funny.

I have a new celebrity crush on Marc Maron.

Now starting season 2…

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 29, 2018 • 11:04:43am

re: #277 darthstar

Killing children to own the Libs.

This is what we’ve come to??

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 29, 2018 • 11:06:27am
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ObserverArt  Dec 29, 2018 • 11:07:53am

re: #285 William Lewis

Nope. Works beautifully for me. Of course, I’ve been on XUbuntu Linux for years. Fast, simple, stable.

OTOH, Windows 7 is probably the real villain there. At minimum you need to reinstall it from scratch (as in backup your data, wipe the drive and install to a bare drive before restoring data) every 6 months just like every other version of Windows and ensure it’s always completely patched.

I understand if you do not like Windows, but the machine works fine with all my Adobe programs and just about everything else. It is only ad heavy web sites with videos like fucking ESPN that cause the problems.

I keep my machines damn clean. I have no crashes.

I know the real issue, the motherboard is limited in the amount of RAM it can hold. It was an old slave unit from my previous job. I kept it because it had the programs I needed to transition from my old job to freelancing. Now it is used only for some of my website work and some web browsing.

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 29, 2018 • 11:09:25am

Well, here’s some good news.

Two employees at a Portland DoubleTree hotel who kicked out a black guest have been fired.

The hotel made the announcement on Twitter on Saturday, saying the actions of the employees “were inconsistent with our standards and values.” The employees were previously placed on leave.

kgw.com (note: autoplay vid embedded at link)

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Eventual Carrion  Dec 29, 2018 • 11:12:23am

re: #171 Barefoot Grin

Greg Sargent has made the good point that by cutting off aid to northern Central American countries Trump can be guaranteed more and more caravans of people needing asylum. Whether intentional or more instinctive, his impulse is always to use the suffering of others to help himself.

It’s in his blood.

Woody Guthrie — I Ain’t Got No Home/Old Man Trump by the Missin’ Cousins

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 29, 2018 • 11:17:03am

I almost got whiplash

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jaunte  Dec 29, 2018 • 11:17:20am
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William Lewis  Dec 29, 2018 • 11:17:29am

re: #307 ObserverArt

I understand if you do not like Windows, but the machine works fine with all my Adobe programs and just about everything else. It is only ad heavy web sites with videos like fucking ESPN that cause the problems.

I keep my machines damn clean. I have no crashes.

I know the real issue, the motherboard is limited in the amount of RAM it can hold. It was an old slave unit from my previous job. I kept it because it had the programs I needed to transition from my old job to freelancing. Now it is used only for some of my website work and some web browsing.

Ok, I dig that. The next question I’d have is if you run any kind of ad blocking software? I have only a very tiny handful of sites I white list. Perhaps that would help? I do know that the autoplay videos on SI (my sportsball web of choice) drive me nuts. That might get you through till you can get a mobo with greater RAM capacity?

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dangerman  Dec 29, 2018 • 11:19:26am

re: #305 Eclectic Cyborg

Killing children to own the Libs.

This is what we’ve they’ve come to??.

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 29, 2018 • 11:20:47am

re: #311 jaunte

I’m soooo tempted to fire back to Trump:

I+RfFqFz1k/iMp6suwdQp/dUhT3a4ff25Vi5JWoZvhyxWfrpaYwx5wQw4Cc/X6FYZeeInSIx0ivx0V85x9Oehk4vK0i+35waothfCTuYQ4oQTiMRrsO/IdvMfMHhQC4eNpW4vYEfXBIRdT5BkgViUUDXRtRj/i7D

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dangerman  Dec 29, 2018 • 11:22:52am

re: #308 Dr Lizardo

Well, here’s some good news.

kgw.com (note: autoplay vid embedded at link)

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Work with diversity experts?
Let me help:
-don’t fuck with guests
-Better, don’t fuck with anybody

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 29, 2018 • 11:24:32am
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dangerman  Dec 29, 2018 • 11:24:37am

re: #310 Backwoods_Sleuth

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I almost got whiplash

I am sure Nancy is going ” bring it on”

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Ferdinand  Dec 29, 2018 • 11:24:54am

re: #235 ObserverArt

I made the switch off Chrome a year ago when I moved from a MacBook to PC after many years. Embraced MS Edge. No regrets yet and only some minor downsides. Went from Chrome/Safari approach on MacBook and iPhone to an Edge/Safari approach on an Alienware PC and iPhone. Smooth sailing in my Google free (well I have a gmail phone app for one email account) world.

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plansbandc  Dec 29, 2018 • 11:24:57am

re: #314 Dr Lizardo

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 29, 2018 • 11:27:12am

JFC

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dangerman  Dec 29, 2018 • 11:29:00am

re: #320 Backwoods_Sleuth

JFC

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I have no doubt that someone just explained that to him because he asked today

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b_sharp  Dec 29, 2018 • 11:29:27am

re: #129 ObserverArt

Morning!

I was checking out a British Formula One racing news site Thursday and my TrendMicro protection threw up a big old warning that one of the other sites linked to some of their content was blocked for cryptocurrency mining. Yikes! Backed the hell out of there fast.

I think I won’t be suing that site anymore. It has turned into a complete mess with all the ad links and some of their ads have the close button and it doesn’t close. Also the last few months of the year it has thrown up warnings about viruses in some of the links.

Sad.

Websites are getting worse. Even big companies are spending more money adding ads than making their sites usable.

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 29, 2018 • 11:29:29am

re: #319 plansbandc

az18Rgfkkk8LwozLCIneFgdVIVVy6B47yd+5x4peVfJVMmihkDVkSQHLRGTB5yJP

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ObserverArt  Dec 29, 2018 • 11:32:20am

re: #312 William Lewis

Ok, I dig that. The next question I’d have is if you run any kind of ad blocking software? I have only a very tiny handful of sites I white list. Perhaps that would help? I do know that the autoplay videos on SI (my sportsball web of choice) drive me nuts. That might get you through till you can get a mobo with greater RAM capacity?

I do have other machines with more RAM loaded. It is just that at one time browsers were not overcome with websites that try to get everything out on the front page.

I like my old machine…I don’t want to retire it when it does a fine job overall.

My biggest beef though is still the way all the damn ads load from outside servers and sometimes those servers are slow to load and mess everything up.

As I said in my original post, there has got to be a better way to handled the ads. I think they are being too slick by reading into your cookies to select ads that pertain to you. It takes too much time and the fact all of that has to happen before you can do something like scroll to read the damn content you came to the site for to me is not good for either the user or the ad agencies and the companies they represent.

I know a lot of people that hate all the ads. What good does that do for the advertisers? I think it is defeating.

And as was discussed here the other day, there is still a lot of questions about online ad costs and how well they work.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 29, 2018 • 11:32:57am
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makeitstop  Dec 29, 2018 • 11:33:31am

re: #320 Backwoods_Sleuth

IN THE SENATE WE NEED 10 DEMOCRAT VOTES, and they will gives us “NONE”

He’s tweeting in his Gollum voice today.

Tricksy Democrates….

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William Lewis  Dec 29, 2018 • 11:33:51am

re: #314 Dr Lizardo

I’m just glad as fuck I’m no longer in the Army. Reagan as my commander was bad; Trump as commander in chief is the stuff of PTSD nightmares by itself just from the fear of what he’ll do if he has a tantrum.

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plansbandc  Dec 29, 2018 • 11:35:50am

If the moron in chief and his pathetic staff ever get organized in any meaningful way, I will be disappeared for my tweets.

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jaunte  Dec 29, 2018 • 11:37:48am

re: #328 plansbandc

You’re completely safe.

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William Lewis  Dec 29, 2018 • 11:39:16am

re: #328 plansbandc

If the moron in chief and his pathetic staff ever get organized in any meaningful way, I will be disappeared for my tweets.

They’d have other … problem children … than tweeters if it came to that.

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jaunte  Dec 29, 2018 • 11:40:32am
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plansbandc  Dec 29, 2018 • 11:42:11am

re: #330 William Lewis

I worry more about what comes after the orange bastard. Another far smarter R will ruin us all carry further the precedents the orange garbageman has set.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 29, 2018 • 11:44:42am
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William Lewis  Dec 29, 2018 • 11:48:49am

re: #332 plansbandc

I worry more about what comes after the orange bastard. Another far smarter R will ruin us all carry further the precedents the orange garbageman has set.

Which is why what is created in Resistance now is so important for later.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Dec 29, 2018 • 11:49:23am

re: #310 Backwoods_Sleuth

I almost got whiplash

The money quote:

This is not Pelosi’s first holiday vacation to Hawaii.

Holy fuck, this is scraping the bottom of the barrel for craptastic journalisms.

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 29, 2018 • 11:50:03am

re: #318 Ferdinand

I made the switch off Chrome a year ago when I moved from a MacBook to PC after many years. Embraced MS Edge. No regrets yet and only some minor downsides. Went from Chrome/Safari approach on MacBook and iPhone to an Edge/Safari approach on an Alienware PC and iPhone. Smooth sailing in my Google free (well I have a gmail phone app for one email account) world.

The only thing about MS Edge is it shares copious amounts of information with Microsoft. Searching “privacy settings in Microsoft Edge” will help you secure the obscure settings Microsoft doesn’t really point out to you.

cnet.com

Especially this one:

Each Microsoft account has a unique advertising ID that lets the company collect information about you and deliver a personalized ad experience across different platforms. If you sign into Windows 10 with a Microsoft account, those personalized ads will follow you onto your computer — you’ll see them in apps and possibly in the operating system itself (in the Start menu, for example).

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 29, 2018 • 11:50:39am
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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 29, 2018 • 11:51:44am

re: #323 Dr Lizardo

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 29, 2018 • 11:54:11am

re: #335 Colère Tueur de Lapin

The money quote:

Holy fuck, this is scraping the bottom of the barrel for craptastic journalisms.

It’s the Free Beacon, Jake. They don’t do journalism, they do propaganda.

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jaunte  Dec 29, 2018 • 11:55:30am

re: #310 Backwoods_Sleuth

This is not Pelosi’s first holiday vacation to Hawaii.

Imagine someone from California going to Hawaii for a vacation.

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jaunte  Dec 29, 2018 • 11:55:50am

INCONCEIVABLE

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 29, 2018 • 11:57:43am
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jaunte  Dec 29, 2018 • 11:58:35am
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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 29, 2018 • 12:00:10pm

re: #322 b_sharp

Websites are getting worse. Even big companies are spending more money adding ads than making their sites usable.

Not just adverts but trackers as well (such as Doubleclick). Every one of those trackers has to be downloaded from a different Website, which slows down not the browser, but the Website.

That’s why my wife’s Websites load so fast (since she has no adverts and no trackers), while other blogs have a noticeable difference in time to load (regardless of the browser used).

Even when using a blocker such as NoScript, the blocker sees the call to a Website and spends some amount of time substituting a dummy cookie or tracker so the Website doesn’t break.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 29, 2018 • 12:01:08pm

re: #343 jaunte

No. Anyone who does has already run for the hills or been driven out.

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garzooma  Dec 29, 2018 • 12:04:17pm

re: #235 ObserverArt

Anyone else sick of using Chrome as a browser?

[…]

How much freaking RAM do we have to have anyway?

Sorry for the rant due to frustration. Arrrgh.

It does seem to make my machine grind to a halt.

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Eventual Carrion  Dec 29, 2018 • 12:06:07pm

re: #253 Backwoods_Sleuth

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sagehen  Dec 29, 2018 • 12:11:23pm

re: #277 darthstar

Any deaths of children or others at the Border are strictly the fault of the Democrats and their pathetic immigration policies that allow people to make the long trek thinking they can enter our country illegally. They can’t. If we had a Wall, they wouldn’t even try! The two…..

So… does that mean that any Cubans who drowned in their attempts to reach Florida are the fault of the Republicans?

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 29, 2018 • 12:11:35pm

Yay, it’s above freezing outside (35°F outside). At least for today, my pipes won’t freeze. Tomorrow we will get up to a blistering 46°F.

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 29, 2018 • 12:12:44pm

re: #253 Backwoods_Sleuth

58.

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freetoken  Dec 29, 2018 • 12:16:06pm

re: #349 Anymouse 🌹

I remember when I was growing up in the great white north that our pipes would freeze. Made for difficult times.

That’s one reason why, after I graduated college, I headed to the most southwest corner of the continental US.

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 29, 2018 • 12:24:16pm

re: #351 freetoken

I remember when I was growing up in the great white north that our pipes would freeze. Made for difficult times.

That’s one reason why, after I graduated college, I headed to the most southwest corner of the continental US.

You live near Vandenberg AFB?

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dangerman  Dec 29, 2018 • 12:28:28pm

re: #331 jaunte

Farmers are getting hit by a one-two punch. First, it was Trump’s tariffs. And now, because of #shutdown, payments won’t be made to farmers hurt by the trade war. Farm loans and disaster assistance programs also will be put on hold. #NotMAGA apnews.com …

shouldnt have supported him

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dangerman  Dec 29, 2018 • 12:29:43pm

re: #335 Colère Tueur de Lapin

The money quote:

This is not Pelosi’s first holiday vacation to Hawaii.

Holy fuck, this is scraping the bottom of the barrel for craptastic journalisms.

the money quote translated:

this is not pelosi’s first rodeo

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Dec 29, 2018 • 12:37:23pm
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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 29, 2018 • 12:38:03pm

re: #353 dangerman

shouldnt have supported him

Democrats are obstructionists.

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 29, 2018 • 12:39:29pm

re: #353 dangerman

shouldnt have supported him

Unfortunately, it will also hit those of us who didn’t support him.

A collapsing agriculture economy here for example, where Mexico is our second-largest trade partner in the world, is going to take down liberals and both-siderists as well.

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plansbandc  Dec 29, 2018 • 12:39:46pm

I just cried and cried again about the orange bag. Still crying. I’m not sure if there’s any way to stop.

Will be buying more booze after little dog’s walk.

Damn it.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Dec 29, 2018 • 12:39:49pm
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Jay C  Dec 29, 2018 • 12:40:49pm

re: #355 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

[Embedded content]

Kitteh has obviously figured out where the “Pause” switch is…

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Dec 29, 2018 • 12:48:36pm

re: #336 Anymouse 🌹

The only thing about MS Edge is it shares copious amounts of information with Microsoft. Searching “privacy settings in Microsoft Edge” will help you secure the obscure settings Microsoft doesn’t really point out to you.

cnet.com

Especially this one:

those personalized ads will follow you onto your computer — you’ll see them in apps and possibly in the operating system itself (in the Start menu, for example).

Ads “in the operating system itself” Oh HELL no! How are not people converging on Redmond with torches and pitchforks? MicroShaft needs to be cleansed with fire.

362
freetoken  Dec 29, 2018 • 12:48:49pm

re: #352 Anymouse 🌹

You live near Vandenberg AFB?

San Diego.

Vandenberg (even SF) is more west, be we’re more south.

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freetoken  Dec 29, 2018 • 12:52:27pm

Brexit is putting pressure on gold:

Irish gold broker sees jump in demand over hard Brexit fears

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 29, 2018 • 12:56:24pm
365
Anymouse 🌹  Dec 29, 2018 • 12:57:17pm

re: #361 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Ads “in the operating system itself” Oh HELL no! How are not people converging on Redmond with torches and pitchforks? MicroShaft needs to be cleansed with fire.

They can be shut off, as the CNet article notes. The problem is Microsoft doesn’t tell you how to shut those adverts off.

Moreover, Microsoft programs are very promiscuous with other Microsoft programs.

For example, Microsoft’s individual ID allows Cortana to display things in a search which are tailored to your computer. I have Office for Business 2016, which means such things can be displayed in Office programs.

If you have a wireless router which is open (or others have the password for it), Microsoft Windows computers around you will download updates from your computer rather than Microsoft (it saves them bandwidth). That’s another privacy setting which can be shut off.

If you have Windows 10, searching for all the privacy settings to secure your computer is one of the first things you should do.

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 29, 2018 • 1:00:42pm

re: #365 Anymouse 🌹

The CNet article lists five. This article lists all.

The Complete Guide to Windows 10 Privacy Settings (Goes to Make Use Of), more at the link:

Windows 10 has long come under attack for its approach to user privacy. When Windows 10 hit the shelves back in 2015, numerous features came under immediate attack from privacy advocates and Microsoft critics alike. However, Microsoft stuck to its guns in regard to alleged privacy infringements, adding greater control over individual elements but not completely removing any of the perceived privacy infringing features.

The major issue leveled at Windows 10 concerns data collection. Is Microsoft overstepping the boundaries of operating system data collection? Misleading stories regarding integrated keyloggers and spyware certainly do not help. However, nor does Microsoft’s addition of advertising within File Explorer (this is easily turned off) and vaguely worded EULAs that worry users about constant system scanning (the EULA in question is not permitting this behavior).

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DodgerFan1988  Dec 29, 2018 • 1:01:36pm

Conservative priorities

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Dec 29, 2018 • 1:02:16pm

re: #365 Anymouse 🌹

They can be shut off, as the CNet article notes. The problem is Microsoft doesn’t tell you how to shut those adverts off.

Moreover, Microsoft programs are very promiscuous with other Microsoft programs.

For example, Microsoft’s individual ID allows Cortana to display things in a search which are tailored to your computer. I have Office for Business 2016, which means such things can be displayed in Office programs.

If you have a wireless router which is open (or others have the password for it), Microsoft Windows computers around you will download updates from your computer rather than Microsoft (it saves them bandwidth). That’s another privacy setting which can be shut off.

If you have Windows 10, searching for all the privacy settings to secure your computer is one of the first things you should do.

If Windows were the only alternative, I’d simply stop using a computer altogether. I’m of an age where I don’t think of it as a necessity of life. And no, I’m not interested in writing my own OS on the fly—AKA Linux—either.

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dangerman  Dec 29, 2018 • 1:06:21pm

re: #357 Anymouse 🌹

Unfortunately, it will also hit those of us who didn’t support him.

A collapsing agriculture economy here for example, where Mexico is our second-largest trade partner in the world, is going to take down liberals and both-siderists as well.

oh, i understand the interconnectedness of it all - its him and them that either dont or just dont care

and often i forget the snark tag

and other times i just go for the pointed answer and cant cover everything ;-)

‘you voted for him. you believed him. he screwed you. we didnt vote for him. we knew he was going to screw us all along.”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 29, 2018 • 1:07:25pm
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dangerman  Dec 29, 2018 • 1:09:36pm

re: #370 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

gruyere? we’re in!

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 29, 2018 • 1:12:16pm

re: #369 dangerman

oh, i understand the interconnectedness of it all - its him and them that either dont or just dont care

and often i forget the snark tag

and other times i just go for the pointed answer and cant cover everything ;-)

‘you voted for him. you believed him. he screwed you. we didnt vote for him. we knew he was going to screw us all along.”

Fair enough.

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freetoken  Dec 29, 2018 • 1:12:17pm

re: #367 DodgerFan1988

Never underestimate the power of bigotry.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 29, 2018 • 1:13:00pm

re: #371 dangerman

gruyere? we’re in!

Del takes the greatest food pics

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Charles Johnson  Dec 29, 2018 • 1:14:57pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 29, 2018 • 1:15:00pm

O_o

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 29, 2018 • 1:15:24pm

re: #368 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

If Windows were the only alternative, I’d simply stop using a computer altogether. I’m of an age where I don’t think of it as a necessity of life. And no, I’m not interested in writing my own OS on the fly—AKA Linux—either.

It’s never been a necessity for me.

With Microsoft trying to push people to use their cloud service (Azure) rather than store documents and create them on your computer, they will eventually push me out of the market if I can no longer store stuff on my own hard drive (considering how often my Internet service is down).

There’s a reason I keep my typewriter.

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 29, 2018 • 1:16:31pm

re: #375 Charles Johnson

And those who vaguely supported him but might not know about his cruelty and such are dragged along with the rest of them.

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MsJ  Dec 29, 2018 • 1:21:13pm

All what happens to that $17 million in the GoFundMe?

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dangerman  Dec 29, 2018 • 1:21:38pm

re: #376 Backwoods_Sleuth

O_o

2018 is being called “THE YEAR OF THE WORKER” by Steve Moore, co-author of “Trumponomics.” It was indeed a great year for the American Worker with the “best job market in 50 years, and the lowest unemployment rate ever for blacks and Hispanics and all workers. Big wage gains

you just denied a 2% raise for federal workers

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TedStriker  Dec 29, 2018 • 1:23:22pm

re: #379 MsJ

All what happens to that $17 million in the GoFundMe?

If I had to guess, a quiet little bank account in the Caymans, with a trip for the account owner to a country without an extradition treaty with the US.

382
Anymouse 🌹  Dec 29, 2018 • 1:23:22pm

My wife sliced some cheese so I can make grilled-cheese sandwiches.

There’s something wrong with the cheese though; it appears moth-eaten and full of holes. I’ll have to ask her about that.

383
TedStriker  Dec 29, 2018 • 1:24:26pm

re: #382 Anymouse 🌹

My wife sliced some cheese so I can make grilled-cheese sandwiches.

There’s something wrong with the cheese though; it appears moth-eaten and full of holes. I’ll have to ask her about that.

The holes are there to save weight during shipping.

384
dangerman  Dec 29, 2018 • 1:24:33pm

re: #378 Anymouse 🌹

And those who vaguely supported him but might not know about his cruelty and such are dragged along with the rest of them.

2015…maybe

by now you cant not know
head in the sand or not just not paying attention is willful

385
dangerman  Dec 29, 2018 • 1:25:41pm

re: #381 TedStriker

If I had to guess, a quiet little bank account in the Caymans, with a trip for the account owner to a non-extradition country.

those folks in NJ just got nailed on that fake fundme scam

386
GlutenFreeJesus  Dec 29, 2018 • 1:30:53pm

387
Anymouse 🌹  Dec 29, 2018 • 1:33:46pm

re: #385 dangerman

those folks in NJ just got nailed on that fake fundme scam

Which fake GoFundMe?

388
Mattand  Dec 29, 2018 • 1:34:21pm

I may have just accidentally flagged Ted’s cheese joke at 383. Please ignore and apologies.

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dangerman  Dec 29, 2018 • 1:38:03pm

re: #387 Anymouse 🌹

Which fake GoFundMe?

it was a real gofundme but the fundraising was a scam story

GoFundMe Refunds Donations To Account For Homeless Vet Set Up By New Jersey Couple

cbs4 denver

there are links everywhere and i think someone posted it here, though i cant remember for sure

390
MsJ  Dec 29, 2018 • 1:38:09pm

re: #387 Anymouse 🌹

Which fake GoFundMe?

A couple supposedly befriended a homeless man and did something nice for him… Raised tens of thousands of dollars and the whole thing was all bullshit.

391
dangerman  Dec 29, 2018 • 1:38:57pm

re: #390 MsJ

A couple supposedly befriended a homeless man and did something nice for him… Raised tens of thousands of dollars and the whole thing was all bullshit.

you should write the news

392
Anymouse 🌹  Dec 29, 2018 • 1:40:21pm

re: #384 dangerman

2015…maybe

by now you cant not know
head in the sand or not just not paying attention is willful

For example, this article on USDA programs and many others which won’t be paid in my regional paper.

Shutdown could affect federal farm aid payments (Goes to the Scottsbluff, Nebr. Star-Herald)

The problem is not “people having their heads in the sand.” The problem is fifty years of Republicans training voters to believe “both sides are equally bad” or “Democrats are bad.” Propaganda is a helluva drug. (This doesn’t just apply to Democrats and Republicans, see also religion.)

Beyond the FSA, several other USDA agencies, including meat, poultry and grain inspectors along with import and export inspectors, have continued to work without pay. Other offices, such as the National Agriculture Statistics Service, have shuttered their doors, furloughed employees and delayed releasing scheduled reports until funding is re-established.

Households who receive monthly Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) (also known as food stamps) will still receive benefits for January. Most other domestic nutrition assistance programs, such as the Commodity Supplemental Food Program, WIC and the Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations, will continue to operate at the state and local level with any funding and commodity resources that remain available. Additional federal funds and commodities will not be provided during the shutdown.

Child Nutrition programs, including School Lunch, School Breakfast, Child and Adult Care Feeding, Summer Food Service and Special Milk will continue operations into February.

However, payout of farm loans, disaster payments and other forms of farm aid will likely cease until after the government reopens.

(more)

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 29, 2018 • 1:42:09pm

re: #389 dangerman

it was a real gofundme but the fundraising was a scam story

cbs4 denver

there are links everywhere and i think someone posted it here, though i cant remember for sure

Thanks. I remember that now when it came out. I confused it with the wall GoFundMe.

I still don’t understand why GoFundMe allows that on their site. I won’t have anything to do with them as long as they profit off racism, and I told them so when I closed my account.

394
MsJ  Dec 29, 2018 • 1:42:40pm

re: #391 dangerman

you should write the news

I read a lot.

Honestly, what can GoFundMe do? Sure it’s fraud but is it actually illegal? The couple weren’t set up as a charity. I think this would be new case law.

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fern01  Dec 29, 2018 • 1:43:42pm

re: #194 dangerman

a moment of silliness at the airport

Loved it - We used to have a policeman who was on point duty before the traffic lights were installed at a 5 ways - could dance with the best of them. Snarled the traffic with people stopping to watch.

396
Anymouse 🌹  Dec 29, 2018 • 1:44:37pm

re: #394 MsJ

I read a lot.

Honestly, what can GoFundMe do? Sure it’s fraud but is it actually illegal? The couple weren’t set up as a charity. I think this would be new case law.

Fraud violates their terms of service. Fraud is also illegal (though laws are still being written in some states about rape-by-fraud).

397
Jay C  Dec 29, 2018 • 1:46:31pm

Heh.
According to Josh Marshall at TPM, President Trump has cancelled his plans to fly down to Florida for the big NYE gala he had planned at Mar-a-Lago.

Apparently, Josh reports, this has seriously discomfited a lot of high-roller guests who had expected a Presidential meat-pressing as part of their high-dollar “guest fees”.

Oh, the Humanity!! Tragic!!
Not.

398
Anymouse 🌹  Dec 29, 2018 • 1:47:05pm

re: #396 Anymouse 🌹

Additionally, you don’t have to be set up as a charity to defraud someone.

If I say I will give you my car after you pay me, and you pay me, then I don’t give you my car, that’s fraud, even though I’m not a charity.

If I take absentee ballots in NC-9 and promise to deliver them to the ballot box, then throw them away in a Dumpster, that’s election fraud.

399
Anymouse 🌹  Dec 29, 2018 • 1:47:42pm

re: #397 Jay C

Heh.
According to Josh Marshall at TPM, President Trump has cancelled his plans to fly down to Florida for the big NYE gala he had planned at Mar-a-Lago.

Apparently, Josh reports, this has seriously discomfited a lot of high-roller guests who had expected a Presidential meat-pressing as part of their high-dollar “guest fees”.

Oh, the Humanity!! Tragic!!
Not.

Maybe they can sue him for fraud, if a promise was involved.

400
MsJ  Dec 29, 2018 • 1:51:17pm

re: #396 Anymouse 🌹

Fraud violates their terms of service. Fraud is also illegal (though laws are still being written in some states about rape-by-fraud).

Is think terms of service is civil not criminal.

Is have to know more about what the fraud laws actually state.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Dec 29, 2018 • 1:51:54pm
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dangerman  Dec 29, 2018 • 1:52:07pm

re: #395 fern01

Loved it - We used to have a policeman who was on point duty before the traffic lights were installed at a 5 ways - could dance with the best of them. Snarled the traffic with people stopping to watch.

i remember one of those stories from back in the days of candid camera
it wasnt one of their usual setups
just a film clip of a dancing traffic cop

who, with a quick google trip, is identified
Vic Cianca

this is about 10 years after the candid camera episode

YouTube

and apparently other cops around the country started to do the same thing - all over youtube

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MsJ  Dec 29, 2018 • 1:52:22pm

re: #398 Anymouse 🌹

Additionally, you don’t have to be set up as a charity to defraud someone.

If I say I will give you my car after you pay me, and you pay me, then I don’t give you my car, that’s fraud, even though I’m not a charity.

If I take absentee ballots in NC-9 and promise to deliver them to the ballot box, then throw them away in a Dumpster, that’s election fraud.

Still not seeing the direct correlation to how that applies to GFM.

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Jay C  Dec 29, 2018 • 1:53:36pm

re: #399 Anymouse 🌹

Maybe they can sue him for fraud, if a promise was involved.

A promise? From Donald Trump??
The invitation solicitation probably has more weasel-wording, caveats and legal “outs” than a gray-market washer’s “warranty”.

And as for the first bit, they’ll have to get in at end of a VERY long line…

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MsJ  Dec 29, 2018 • 1:54:16pm

re: #404 Jay C

A promise? From Donald Trump??
The invitation solicitation probably has more weasel-wording, caveats and legal “outs” than a gray-market washer’s “warranty”.

And as for the first bit, they’ll have to get in at end of a VERY long line…

Not to mention a NDA.

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dangerman  Dec 29, 2018 • 2:01:53pm

re: #392 Anymouse 🌹

For example, this article on USDA programs and many others which won’t be paid in my regional paper.

Shutdown could affect federal farm aid payments (Goes to the Scottsbluff, Nebr. Star-Herald)

The problem is not “people having their heads in the sand.” The problem is fifty years of Republicans training voters to believe “both sides are equally bad” or “Democrats are bad.” Propaganda is a helluva drug. (This doesn’t just apply to Democrats and Republicans, see also religion.)

(more)

i think we may have gone down two different roads

no doubt all those people and programs are being hurt.

im only focusing on the farmers who, yes, i assume, overwhelmingly voted republican, then lost their crop market (which will never come back), and now their loans/aid to cover the lost markets are being delayed as well

specifically, though i was responding to 384
“And those who vaguely supported him but might not know about his cruelty and such are dragged along with the rest of them.”

and i’ll say again - by now, almost 2019 you cant not know
im not saying people, even R’s arent getting hurt…

im saying they either actively know and endorse his cruelty or else their ignorance three years in is willful

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fern01  Dec 29, 2018 • 6:12:00pm

re: #331 jaunte

Farmers risk loss of federal payments, loans, from shutdown

And they won’t blame trump or republicans - those nasty democrats are taking their money.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Dec 29, 2018 • 6:13:00pm

re: #250 Anymouse 🌹

This bigot jumped out at me:
“I’ll never watch your news again!!!! So long, News4Jax’ another viewer wrote to the station. ‘I thought this was a “family friendly” news channel.’”

As though gay people don’t have families; obviously because, well, they’re not human.


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